Once upon a rainbow,

I walked into a garden,

Oh, how beautiful it looked,

It was the dream place,

I was filled with hopes and dreams,

Oh the beauty I would behold,

Forever and ever,

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Once upon a moon,

In this beautiful garden,

With lowers blooming season after season,

I discovered a plant,

Beautiful, lush, and supple,

But it had no flowers,

The buds came, but they wouldn’t bloom,

Season after season,

The buds came, and just before blooming, the fell off and dried up,

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Once upon a sunshine,

I forgot the rest of my garden,

And worked on my plant,

With buds that refused to bloom,

I read, how to make it better,

I bought manure,

I tended to it,

I watered it some more,

I put in so much effort,

With hope, that it would,

Someday show me the colour of its flowers,

The more I put in,

The more it wouldn’t bloom,

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Once upon a desert,

I looked up from my plant,

The plant I concentrated on so much,

And to my shock,

The whole garden was dry,

Where did my flowers go?

My garden was no longer beautiful,

Everything had all dried up,

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Once upon a cumulus,

I looked up in regret,

Wondering,

How could I slip so much,

Why didn’t I notice

That as I concentrated on making my plant bloom,

Not only did I waste it,

But I forgot the rest of my garden,

And unattended and neglected,

It all dried up.

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Once upon a season,

With tears on my face,

And drooping shoulders,

I walked out of my garden,

With a heavy heart,

I closed the gate,

And walked away,

Trudging,

Heading to no where,

With only hope,

That someday,

I will have another garden.

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Once upon a life,

I started all over,

With no garden but with garden tools,

I bought a garden,

I ploughed it,

I planted,

I watered,

And trusted in the one who holds everything in place,

To make it bloom,

And one day at a time,

A plant sprouted,

Each with it’s own beauty,

I let the plants be,

What they were best at,

And with each being its authentic self,

No manipulation to make it what I wanted it to be,

With a shimmer of hope in my eyes,

I watched my garden become…

JK…