THE SEED

There is a pool within us

in which we may find 

another. It is easy to 

mistake the image we see

for our selves.

But the image is not us.

Who is it, then?

Who is mirroring our gaze 

in those mythical waters?

There is a buoyant seed 

in this question.

If we steep in it

and let its roots reach deep,

an attention and affection,

a grace and care, will artfully 

open from this seed, 

will arise, blossom up and out

of the alluring waters

to show us that beauty 

and transformation, 

acceptance and love

are bigger than

the surface of things:

that Nature is forever

replicating itself, and is

a visible invisible 

flowering 

in all things.