One Sunflower Bloomed

With his baggy overalls And a worn, plaid cap, The old farmer recalls With a piglet in his lap Seated on the porch swing Of his aging farmhouse, He saw not a thing ... But the life of a louse A barn roof bowed Stressing sparse board, Tractor's down the road Needs what he can't afford Fields bare and dry Never mind the cornstalks, Who were not knee-high Down the row he walks On a day, too hot to toil When the man couldn't cope, At the corner of the soil There stood a ray of hope And so it was ... He felt less doomed, Simply and because ... One sunflower bloomed.