Have you ever tasted the nectar from a flower?

Have you ever tasted the nectar from a flower?
Somedays that is all I do…
Into the wonderful serenity of so many gardens…
Such natural sweetness…
If you don’t want to call it a miracle, call it a gift.

This for me is the best way to escape pain and aloneness…
Mixing each bloom with a ray from the sun…
Into the silence of my soul…
Which by the way is not difficult to see when you are inches away,

When we close our eyes, we are blind…
Then comes the feeling of total isolation…
Considering all day long the “almosts…”
As a sojourner who has lost their way back home.

Listen to me!

The glacial winters have past…
There is nothing but vestiges left of that frozen ground…
Your heart break is best left in a book on the shelf…
It will only leave you with wrinkles and spots (kind of like my cousin).

It is time to become a rider of the tides…
Push the boundaries of the modern stage…
Play life with a grander volume…
Take a sip from a flower.

I love you,

Annie