Gather the Flowers
kind words are like sweet flowers gather them up like little yellow daisies and sweet lavender in a wild field of sharp grasses and overgrown weeds inhale them memorize the scent sketch their shape and color in your minds eye do not lose the feeling of the stems in your fingers or the silky soft petals hold them against your chest near a window in a vase freshen the water in the spring let the sun and fresh air in and when the cold comes keep in the warmth light a candle near the mirror admire each stark shadow and count the glimmers in your eyes that is hope let it carry you and when the sun returns it will light up all that you are written by Megan Token Nov. 2022