Love Poem: Magic Blooms
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Written by: Ann Foster

Magic Blooms

Magic Blooms
of paint and paper...

You are still here. 
I know it, 
and feel it all the time. 
Today, 
I see it clearly. 
A small card, 
found in your desk. 
To me...
Both written and signed
months before you left. 
You knew you were leaving. 
How did you know, 
(tears... whispered...) how?

The way I would feel, 
the things that I would need. 
What would make my day, 
bearable, and knowing too, 
what would break it apart. 

A giving tree full of love, 
popped up from kirigami,  
like a lovingly planted warm embrace, 
that surrounds and binds me...
to the here and now, 
and gives me strength, 
to live until then. 


kirigami, (fashioned, folded and cut paper)