The Offering

The seeds of good deeds become a tree of life…

— Proverbs 11:30

Each lemony petal

seems ready to fall,

the seeds, too, wait

for the passing bee

or butterfly to land, 

to carry a new generation,

disperse a gift asunder,

and though we could 

mourn the loss of a single

petal, the sacrifice of this bloom

is not gone but changed

into an offering, a continuation

as life begets more life

in the beauty of renewal.

—C.L. Fisher, September 2021

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