Dear Daisy

Preciously welcomed by world

into herself

with arms of love

you were waited for

by mother

father

brother.

Anticipated by world

she watched over you

as your mother watched over you

as seed germinated in womb

Aa seed germinated in world’s womb

the hope of your life

and the life it would bring.

Your Life birthed forth

giving life to those around you.

Cherished, adored

always cherished.

She who welcomed you into herself is wild

wildly beautiful.

She scoffs at projections

definitions of beauty

prescribed on glossy paper

tight between right angles.

She is wildly beautiful.

She is changing shimmers as the day begins

before which she consumes with darkness.

She is water running over rocks.

She hollers through the expanse

hurls ice to catch the wind.

She is chaos.

Sometimes breaking branches

falling

sometimes breaking dreams

breaking expectations.

Branches obstructing paths

but we can still dream.

Dream wildly enough to see her beauty

in all her diversity.

Dreams that wind their way out of boxes

wind themselves into new frameworks

exploring new possibilities.

Boxes

the stupidity, ignorance

to which

may you never submit.

Dream wild.

Daisy

you are Daisy.

A beautiful flower growing forth from seed of love

your life is a garden

to be worked

to be watered

to be planted.

May people plant good things in your life

in your heart

that you would flourish

develop into who you are

that your flourishing

would give into the flourishing of others

giving life

absorbing life

through skin cells

through breath

through sight

through sound

osmosis.

The giving and receiving of life.

Dear Daisy

I cannot wish for you fairness

a life free from wilderness

her complications

and messiness

struggles and setbacks

pain and medical interventions

complications

to the life expected

the life wanted.

I can not wish away

the stones upon which you’ll stub your toe

and kick again in frustration.

But this I can pray for you

in the knowledge of love, faith and hope.

May you walk hand in hand with love.

Love will surround you with family.

As long as waves caress the sand

is as long as they will fight for you.

Treasure them

for from within them you will draw treasure after treasure

The strength to take another step

yet with stone-stubbed toe.

Arms that build shelters of comfort for you to hide in.

Although remember to come out after a while

take yet another step.

Be growing

in knowing

the unconditional love in which you are dwelling.

Increasingly deeply

know that you are loved completely.

You your brother

will keep forever.

May you know the God who knows you

who loves you

who sees you

who dwells within each cell that is you

with love, passion, peace.

May you have peace

within wilderness.

Hope in the God who loves you.

May you always have friends.

Sometimes one or two is enough.

May you find that laughter can dwell within spaces filled with pain

Dear Daisy, you love

and what more is there then to love and to be loved

For this is what we are for.

This is who we are for.

So love.

So breathe.

So be.