Amidst the Cherry Blossoms by Colleen Keller Breuning

Amidst the Cherry Blossoms

As the sun sits high on its throne

pink rain falls in delicate petals

cherry blossoms scatter the joy

and the earth laughs in flowers.

The cool breeze blows lightly

    caressing our delicate white skin

           eliciting goosebumps and shivers

as we delight in the fruits of nature.

 Walking with you in the golden sunshine

                 hand in hand, hearts entwined

    oblivious to discord, we trip on gnarled roots

and down the rabbit hole we fall.

As night descends with blackened fears

        wrapping us with a cold shawl

             we look upward, pondering

the meaning of our existence.

But the distant light glows in radiant pulses          

       our salvation, our beacon of hope

             for when it is dark enough,

you can surely see the stars.

Come along with me, my love

      lift me up in light or dark,  

          dare to dream beneath the smiling moon

the unthinkable, the unimaginable….

…. do you dare?

Colleen Keller Breuning © 2017