The Garden Within

Photo by&#160;<a href="https://www.pexels.com/@abhishekgaurav?utm_content=attributionCopyText&#38;utm_medium=referral&#38;utm_source=pexels">abhishek gaurav</a>&#160;from&#160;<a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-photo-of-green-succulent-plant-1446150/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&#38;utm_medium=referral&#38;utm_source=pexels">Pexels</a><br/><br/>Will you embrace the daisy and the rage,the passionflower you could ne'er controland are you willing to address the pagethat history would echo, see the roleyour father's hands have helped--and mother's too,in evil overgrowing all our chests;will you accept the weeding still to doand rip the evil tendrils from your breast,dig deeper still, and terminate the rootsalthough they circumscribe your tender heart?Please do the work! A generation's shootsmay find therein a gentle place to startand if you tend it well, a blessing beascribed to you, for all the world to see. <br/><br/>Get full access to Sonnets &c. at <a href="https://zjppoetry.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast">zjppoetry.substack.com/subscribe</a>