Hope for the Flowers*

Hope for the Flowers*

For Jessica Hope Sanford Lang

 

Hope for the flowers, the butterfly

Floats through the garden, free as the sky;

The essence of life on delicate wing,

Hope for the flowers that bloom in the spring.

 

Profusion of colors with fragrances sweet

Appear where the pollen and beating wings meet,

Thrilling the heart and stirring the soul,

Each individually part of the whole.

 

Hope, hope for the flowers,

only when the butterfly

Is free to fly as it chooses

to carry the essence of life.

 

Just being you abundantly gives

Hope to my life each moment you live;

Abounding in beauty with light from above,

You bring to the world God’s presence and love.

 

All of my life, I’d dreamed of you;

Pictured the things I’d want you to do;

For I had been hurt and wanted to stay

Protected in dreams with life all my way.

 

The butterfly must not be told

How it should fly, what it should hold;

I have no right to ask of you

Anything not of your heart free and true.

 

©Stan Sanford

May 2, 1996

 

*Jessica’s middle name came from the book,

Hope for the Flowers, by Trina Paulus.

 

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