Fallen Flowers: Lessons in Detachment

Embracing growth and change

Fallen flowers can come just in your way and not onto your stem.
(Image by Nishtha Srivastava)

As I walk through the path of life,
I encounter fallen flowers many times.
The flowers who have parted ways,
sometimes too soon, other times held for many days.

It’s night and I hope I am dreaming,
and in the next morning’s grace,
I may find them at their proper place.

Yet a voice within softly says,
if it got dull, let it go.
Even if it’s beautiful, let it flow.

Let go of its attachment to your stem,
you no longer belong to them.

This night it will fall, and the next morning you will bloom anew.
In this ocean of life, everyone should sail through.

Carry your journey to the next inevitable season,
thrive like the sturdy tree even in less favorable condition.

Embrace the radical freedom and the new way,
for the process of growth follows that of decay.