A Knowing Smile

I saw a wild violet…

growing by the road;
she couldn’t raise her face to me…
because of her heavy load.

Her leaves were limp and wilting:
she felt she had no worth.
Her roots to Life were stunted…
by the dryness of the earth.

In some strange way, the violet’s plight…
touched a chord in me, so deep.
I shed compassionate tears on her
and she awoke from sleep.

What joy for me to see her now…
opening wide her violet eye;
and nodding with ‘a knowing smile’ –
each time I pass her by.

Remember the environment…
shapes the way that people grow;
and they discover what Love means…
when God’s love to them, you show!

- Poetic Expressions