A Leaf Settles

Lotus of the Heart > Path of Spirit > Garden of God

Sep 29, 2023

look at the doorstep of your house
there sits the dung heap of life

turn not away from the sight
disdain not the scent

look, laugh, inhale deeply-
dance for the possibilities
you'd never before seen

one look can make the world
a garden of fresh flowers

the Gardner has wisdom
fools perceive not

the Gifts of the Beloved
almost always come disguised

the resurrections of today and tomorrow
lie in the graves of yesterday

there are whispers
no ears can hear

a golden ring lies waiting
at the bottom of a garbage dump

if you can't discover God here, now,
why speak of a heaven elsewhere?

sit at your door, friend of the Friend,
and welcome the world to your house

a leaf settles on the ground
a myriad of hearts find rest there

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*©Brian K. Wilcox, 2023

*Brian K. Wilcox, An Ache for Union: Poems on Oneness with God through Love, can be ordered through major online booksellers or the publisher AuthorHouse.

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