Sunflower, you and me

You gave me the sunflower

I placed it in the flower bed

Just like you said

Woke up to it each morning

With a smile dawning

Nighmares forgotten

And other thoughts misbegotten

You said

“look at the sunflower

Not for love money or power

But it will give you peace

You will smile and release

Your darkness as you smile

At the sunflower for a while”

You gave me the sunflower

Now I carry it in my heart

Its my poetry, my art

For when life gets prosaic

I don’t fret or ache

I just close my eyes a bit

And simper tenderly as I see it

You said

“look at the sunflower

Not for love money or power

But it will give you peace

You will smile and release

Your darkness as you smile

At the sunflower for a while”

You gave me the sunflower