Grow Your Own Forgiveness Garden
Grow your own forgiveness garden,
Water it with kindness,
Feed it with love,
Allow courageous holy water tears to flow
sweetly on the earth
Smile in the faces of sun flowers,
Caress the gentle sheep’s ears,
Protect the treasure of integrity with bosoms
of basilica bouquets
Grow your own liberation,
Break free of somber shackles,
Harbor naught treachery and deception,
Wave your flag of caterpillars
Mold your clay of butterflies
Toot your horn of freedom
Shake hands with the roots that ground thy wings
Grow your own forgiveness garden,
Fertilize it with the pain they thought you deserved,
Pick the fruit
Squeeze the flowers
This is a sweet spiritual harvest
Home at last Home at last
in the Garden of Forgiveness
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This is such a lovely idea. I really love the flag of caterpillars!
Thank you so much Jennifer for your kind comments!
Oh My–this poem sends me over the edge with amazement!
The idea of becoming an embodiment of the garden or at times spiritually/ physically being a part of it, and at the same time enjoying it. The idea that receiving strength from immersion with a garden and/or garden concept comes across too. I really like the line: “Shake hands with the roots that ground thy wings”. A lovely poem–thank you!
Ann, bless you my friend your insights warm my heart!
I like the whole idea of forgiveness being deep, wide, and ongoing, with beauty and magic to feed your soul.