In the Garden of Flowers

In the early morning daylight
the shine from heaven’s light awakes a gardener
to his labor of love and affection.
Looking at the flower garden
blooming with radiance despite deteriorating soil
and his old age.

Grabbing the hose of water
filling the bucket of wisdom and hope
sprinkling showers on the body of flowers
everyday’s conquest against earth’s banks of evil.

The gardener provides strength of nutrients
against the pestering death
from his sins with hope of salvation;
while flowers brace up
to the Master Gardener’s
Everlasting Mercy and Care
and belief in the gardener’s fate.

In every nation, flowers can see
from winter to summer
cold places to deserts of camels.
The Abounding Grace of Allah never misses
any of the gardener’s flowers.

Every season flowers come:
beauty in different colors and softness.
Their rejuvenating fragrances engulf the earth
casting an everlasting spell.

Amazing roses of colors in red, white, yellow and pink
hospitable anthrium
pride and beauty of carnation
constancy of hyacinth

love charms of tulips and daffodils.
So many expressions of all flowers
blossom under the gardener’s hand,
something for everyone’s beauty and scale.

By Fatima Tamayo