GIVE FLOWERS

Give flowers

To hands that stretch and open

And even when they close their fist

Thorns never give.

Dodge if you can

Talk with a smile

Bear them, their load of hurt

Convince and plead with them forever.

Into their palms let it lie

Guard them lest they fall off

Regard not how soft or hard, their palm

Give them, even the most beautiful

Sprinkle them if they reject it

On their footpaths leave them,

For passersby to know

That you ever gave them

Flowers heal and never bruise

Flowers forgive and never retaliate

Flowers understand because they love

So give flowers

Give flowers to all hands

Not only to those which stretch and open

Never give thorns

Not even once