For that flower to appear,
the conditions must be just right.
It may be that it happens only once —
Once in a lifetime, once in five hundred years —
If it were left to chance
you might never have seen it.
But you are here
and you have noticed
and perhaps you were the one
whose attentive, open gaze
and ready heart —
what brought you to this place —
are what have lent the air
these right conditions
to let this flower
open here for you.
©Wendy Mulhern
August 15, 2013