So fabulous and vital
In your youth
Mid and even older age

You stand upright
Each branch
Flowering
more beautiful
than the next
sometimes

Falteringly fragile
a stem breaks
off
Quickly repairs

You return
Fleshy roots
True to your proper stance

Now and then you ache
Stares and stairs hurt
to ascend
Going down
standing erect
Orchidaceous
Ostentatious
Outrageous

Truthful to self
Almost as difficult
as the climb

Ones that bloom last
strongest stem
breaks
pinned back
With
dark green clips
Works harder
heals itself

Limbs tenuous
slight more delicate
to seize control
Sturdily tenacious
Blossoms fall
Tendons sever
Conviction

Life captivates
Orchid blooms again