The Daffodil

“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party’!” – Robin Williams.

“Hope is not naive, and hope is not an opiate. Hope may be the single greatest act of defiance against a politics of pessimism and against a culture of despair.”― Sharon Brous

The heroism of the daffodil.
Pushing through dry weathered ground, old leaves.
To pop its head up first.
Risking too soon.
Perhaps one more snow.
The kid that jumps when others hesitate.
Defiant rebel.
Shouting praise and let’s party.
Spring is here.
Brillant color, showing off.
Soul rising to meet the sun.
Hope fulfilled.

“Blessed be you, universal matter, immeasurable time, boundless ether, triple abyss of stars and atoms and generations: you who by overflowing and dissolving our narrow standards or measurement reveal to us the dimensions of God.”― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hymn of the Universe