To understand

If it could be just as it is
If words could be words
Actions could be actions
A flower, a flower
A storm , a storm
Then life wouldn’t be like a songket
Inextricably woven and complex

But flowers are not just flowers
Neither are storms mere storms
In life both flower and storm
Live in the same realm
Flower growing on the earth
Storm trashing around it
Threatening to uproot the little flower

I tried to understand the flower
Then I tried to understand the storm
And I tried it in reverse
To understand the storm
Then to understand the flower
But yet I got no where near to understanding who you are

Forgive my blindness
Forgive my hindsight
There was never any sure way
Only many roads to try
And many I have tried

But now perhaps, just perhaps
After I’d given up trying
There could be yet one more way
I should have tried
To understand both the flower and the storm
To understand the flower in the storm

Please let me try again
For our sake
Don’t push me away
I want to try and try
In you there’s a part of me
To let you go
Is to let me go

 
I’ll try this new way
Pray that I succeed
Only time will tell
Only perseverance remains.