Orchid

Soft and warm is your heart, gentle orchid,

Sweet and tender are petals you bear

Bumblebees crowd your pistil. They lurk. It

Sends golden dust everywhere.

Would I knew where your tenderness comes from

Would I knew how your softness is made

Would I knew how your love makes the soul roam

To the heights and the depths, unafraid.

Would I felt your incredible beauty

On my cheeks, on my lips, in my heart,

Would I had one desire undisputed

Within my soul: to impart

Every beautiful thing that you know

To the people who need it the most,

By transmitting your tender glow

To their hearts and their minds. Though it cost

Me a lifetime, to give your true glory

To the world, to the stars, to the sky -

And though I never know your full story

I will never allow you to die -

No, I'll take you through time, you just glow,

I will take you to Venus and Mars

And when you are about to go

I'll establish you among the stars.