LOVE PLANT

LOVE PLANT

-Nonilon V. Queano/7February2011

They will not be as radiant but oh,

They will truly shine,

The sun, the stars, the moon, a smile

At night or vespers;

And they will truly bloom,

Roses, sunflowers, champignons,

Cherries, young girls who blush

When gazed at, though meekly,

By blue and red boys;

And truly they wil bear fruit

Avocados, mangoes, berries, pomelos,

Tamarinds, scions of whatever,

Protozoans, spirozoans, dream-wetters.

Oh they will all truly, truly they will

All  thunder and crackle and flare up the sky

Or in the pallid air of autumn or winter,

Up the North Pole or down South,

Right of West or left of East,

Truly as time spins into this wilderness

Of empires and quicksands.

They will all.

But they will not be as radiant, white, eternal

As this love plant I tend in my backyard,

Invincible and true,

It beams at the downtrodden

Sings songs of struggle and hope,

And fills all hearts of those who

Cry out for freedom,

With oh such myrrhy fragrance,

And oh such red, red fire.