PETALS OF THE SUN

Blooms of the soul born before wisdom’s stirring light,
drooping when truth’s rays fall into shadows,
but they still express the beauty of their being,
as the petals of the sun,
from the Lord’s seeds sown upon mortal soil .

His love abiding always in their spreading silent elegance,
who make a garden full of compassion’s fragrance
among the thistles and thorns littering the heart’s landscape.

Oh mercy’s spring that rises inside as an exquisite serene splendor
as a harvest in the renewal of one’s sleeping spirit’s sunflower.