The way a lotus blooms - A poem

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 The way a lotus blooms

The way a lotus blooms

From the dirt

So much can be learnt

From this blush pink beauty’s place of birth


Petal by petal

They bloom in to the day and back in at night

So much can be learnt from a mere flower

Blooming from the underworld into the light


They say before you can create order, you have to make a mess

Perhaps in the same vein

The lotus is a symbol of strength and resilience that arises from muck

And is seen as humankind being blessed


Sacred to our motherland

An allegory for the most divine feminine figures,

So much can be learnt from a flower

Brave every storm as hard as you can, and the result is in other hands

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