Someday the blooms will dance

Someday the blooms will dance

The lonely vase that stands upon your table,

Sometimes blooming with flowers new

Often pained in solitude and rue

So truly shouts out our lives' fable

Beauty appears ... But sporadically

Filling the void the vase portrays

A rose, carnations and a lilly

...often .... But not always

So alone for most time the vase stands

Here at home and in far off lands

With only the table for company

Through nights dark and days sunny

My vase is empty too it seems

The flowers are still to come to me

With loneliness bursting at the seems

Winters' round the corner you see

Spring is still a distant thought

The path to then with dangers fraught

But hope is like a beacon for me

Someday the blooms will dance with glee

(written in 2001)