(Poem) Make Me a Pond Lily by Carolyn Lee Boyd

Photo by Carolyn Lee Boyd

Ever the eye in the center of the universe

The lily in the pond opens, one of millions of

Ordinary blooms in thousands of wild places.

I hold it in my muddy hands and let seep into me

Its moon hues, its human-soft petals, its sun-light expanded

Boundaries, floating in the calm, life-giving waters.

To begin, choose anything – a speck of dirt, a galaxy, a lily.

Witness it with love and no expectations.

Within a second, it will grow beyond everything you think you know,

And speak, and heal, and make peace.

Real life is like that, like a universe full of all

We need if we will just let it find asylum in our hands.

While all Creation expands, we retreat beneath our surface,

Close our petals, hide from what we truly seek.

May the lily’s center be our stillpoint.

May we stop there, turn around, and join all that is in an infinite

Openness, like our hands when we meet a beloved.

May all the universe be our beloved.



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