Photosynthesize

if I had planted a garden in your mind...

By R.C. TaylorPublished 4 years ago • 1 min read

My green-thumbed grandmother

had always told me to remember

that lavender helps with anxiety,

rosemary with stress,

and sweetheart jasmine

with depression.

And sometimes I wonder

if I had planted

a garden in your mind,

sown hearty seeds of love,

and watered it with

well water drawn straight from

my river-running heart,

would it have sprouted

and photosynthesized,

breathing happiness like vital

oxygen and candy sugar—

worries never to plague you again?

If I had planted that garden,

would you have lived?

I write to invoke, to process, to honor, to resurrect, and—sometimes—to grieve but, above all, I write to be free.

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