“Rosebud” was previously published in the book “When the Body Calls“, Writers and Readers, 1999. The soundtrack is from the CD “Living It!.

Like a tight wrapped rosebud

shy to Jack’s frosty fingers

beneath each layer of petals

falling away,

I am oblivious to all the signs

along the fast lane

as if I know secretly

some other route.

 

Beneath, behind,

around, beyond

the arrows

pointing down the road

to annihilation

I am poised wide open to feel

the sun upon my petals.

But they simply wither and

are trampled on.

 

But like a tight wrapped rosebud

forever begging

to be explored

singing sweetly

to the bee

about my honey pots

stored in unexplored pathways.

I am anxious

to receive a visitor.

 

Deep within my chambers

a placid lake

reflecting the divine image

of my soul,

rippling with the rhythm eternal

is still wet.

Dew drops individually collected

each morning

lap along the shores

in the evening,

inviting you to be anointed.

 

 

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