*Gallery Reading Room*

seed of love
taken from
my heart

I have kept
you close
for many years

waiting to
be able to
plant you
into the ground
of another

I have searched
high and low
and have
planted you
in ground
that seemed to
be fertile
but that was
instead,
fallow and dry

my love
did not grow
in that ground
and so
I plucked you
out of there
and kept you
in the packet
of my  dreams
waiting to be
shared

and now,
seed of love
I may have
finally found
the ground that
I need to
plant you in,
the ground
of acceptance
in the garden
of life

where you will
be gently cultivated
tenderly fed
and one day
harvested for the
flowering of your
seed. . .

the
bloom
of
love

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