Flowers In My Backyard

I had a garden

Blessed with the colors

Of the wondrous rainbow.

I spent hours with them

Looking and wondering-

Are they happy?

The sun shone on the

But maybe,

It did not share its happiness.

I walked one day

Past the silent river

Which reminded me of lost love.

I never came to the backyard

Because it was not decorated

And never had visitors.

Among the wild grass

Growing like a proud fighter,

Fighting with the sharp leaf blades

Grew two adjoined flowers.

I thought

That I saw marvelous lovers

Blessed by the Fairy Amoreuse.

They touched the rich walls

Of my heartless mansion

But they did not wear

The painful golden robe.

The sun shone a little on them

But, look how courageously

They fought with the darkness.

Unlike the flowers in my garden,

They were happy

Blessed by what was eternal

That day I understood

That the big, expensive cage

Does not give the freedom

Of the unending sky.