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.
Copyright © Kelly Deschler | Year Posted 2023
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