How do you grow

Desert rose, how do you grow

in the scorching heat where you never know

when the rain will come and relieve

your thirst and how do you believe

you can push through and bloom

when everything conspires against you

and you doubt your growth

is strong enough to show

that you belong here.

 

You belong right where you are planted.

 

Where your roots run deep

in the earth that keeps

you connected to your truth

that no famine or storm can take from you

and remind you of the power and grace

from which you’ve been made

to declare that you belong here.

 

That’s how you know how to grow.

 

 

Sarah Lorna