Ayo Okikiolu

Jan 6, 20211 min

Clothed like a flower.

Updated: Jan 8, 2021


Clothed like a flower.

Soul.
 
Please be clothed as a flower
 
Peaceful, unwavering, impressed with right colorful ideas
 
Worried for nothing
 
Thorns to bite those who dare pluck in spite
 
Red as in love not anger
 
Purple as in glory not pride
 
Green as in bountiful
 
Brown as in humble not dirty
 
Grey as in respectful not overly compromising
 
Black as in night without despair
 
To be clothed as a flower is to have all the joy and little regret
 
You are to have light in the shade
 
Hope in all that is worrisome.
 

 
Spirit.
 
You already live as petals.
 
Drag soul along.
 

 
Body.
 
As you wake, bloom.
 
Bees and blight visit
 
Droughts arise predicting doom
 
Situation, circumstance, too much work, too little ethic
 
May bring you gloom.
 
Still live as a flower in all that you do.
 

 
Work. Not for worry but for work.
 
Sleep. Not for shame but for success.
 
Bloom. Not for bad but for better.
 
Root. Not for wrong but for rise
 
Rise right and move.
 

 
Sunrise comes soon
 
waiting to meet all three boons
 
as flowers in commune
 
with a purposeful tune.
 
Soul, Spirit, Body,
 
A meadow of you.
 


©2020 by Ayo Okikiolu.


Context:

This was inspired by the idea that humans are made up of spirit. soul, and body.

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