RISE

The Flames of a flowering Earth

raze the portals of Dark;

a Blossom's soul rises for to meet

the Sun upon a petal rim,

light ensphering atom,

atom ensphering light,

as her prayer ascends the ether.

This radiance I would lead

through my veins, for its Fount

blooms upon Nature's altar.

Aye, even my scars utter

a Summer sky's cerulean distich

this sacred Day,

dispelling toneless sighs

into the dying murk

upon the leaden wing of a last

stricken thought,

of a wounding blessing that

pierced spirit and vessel,

that they might glimpse a kinship

beyond the threshold of matter.

My breath and gaze

rise through despair into Light,

as a seed into Life

through a Season of snow.

"My every child may 

carve a path for Chance."

So, Mother decrees.

© 2016 Lily's Verse

Lilium Candidum

Image: SOUL OF THE SUNFLOWER (edited)

Source: www.the-athenaeum.org

Artist: Elihu Vedder