Spring Is Coming Despite Winter

'It is my faith that every flower 
enjoys the air it breathes.' 
To live means to be aware 
and take time to see and care. 
To live is to apprehend and forgive.
To live means to share, 
open windows, appreciate, 
love, understand and perceive.
 

Endear yourself, dear friend, 
seek out your dignity, 
and never keep your head down 
lest, let me say, you fail, 
when you fall down, to rise up 
like before. 

You will make it. 
You will hopefully make it 
no matter how perilous, daunting 
and imposed this way of life 
might seem. Arise, Awake and Be.

Plant the flowers of your garden 
and guide the sluice of water into them. 
Nobody will do it better except you. 
Nobody will step in your shoes. 
Look at their flowers and wonder. 
Spring is coming despite winter. 
Help its coming by going back 
to your home and garden.

Chokri Omri
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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Komala Avatar
December 9, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Thank you Chokri for sharing your wonderful verse..enjoyed !!!! <3 :) SK
Omri Avatar
December 11, 2012 at 11:55 AM
It's certainly me who should thank you dear Sukmawati Komala. I am happy and honored to see your comment on my poem.
Guzzi Avatar
December 9, 2012 at 7:52 AM
Being in the joy of the moment is one of the hardest things..yet most precious! Light & Love
Omri Avatar
December 11, 2012 at 11:58 AM
Indeed, dear Debbie Guzzi, 'Being in the joy of the moment is one of the hardest things..yet most precious!' Thank you so much for these deep and noble reflections.
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