Bridge

The Garden

The Garden

She watched as the morning sun rose on her garden

Showing two beautiful flowers growing there

One it seemed had been there forever

Never needed caring, just bloomed every year

The other was just starting, but glowed with colors

So rich and beautiful, like none she had known

She watered and cared for, weeded and worshipped

And proudly showed everyone what she had grown

She thinks of her life, once just like her garden

Growing so beautifully with her man by her side

At first he gave everything she ever wanted

But then as quickly as it grew it died

She remembered the morning she found the note he left her

He had another woman and was leaving her alone

As she looked around her at what he had given

She came to realize a house was not a home

She thought of an old love she’d left at the alter

He had given her love unconditionally

But she was young, another was more exciting

In a moment of passion she decided to break free

She knelt near her garden and wondered to herself

About the paths she’d taken, so many questions why

She wiped her tears and looked around her

The flower she had for so many years

Had suddenly died

© 2003 / 2005  Bill Temple