Magnolia
While awaiting bloom, the buds of a magnolia treewill keep all through winter. So too will most
satellite dishes, churches, governments and tools
for felling. A lost moment can last a lifetime, the happiness
of becoming yourself stays with you till you die.
Snow falls, years accumulate, the habit of love
grows in you unseen. And, being, as they say,
comes to those who wait. Beside the cold doors of
that locked room where you once prayed, and then,
in the midst of living, forgot.