Have You Seen The Petals Dance? Poem by Mark Heathcote

Have you seen the petals dance in April?
Watch them chase one another in a circle
like orange blossom, an archangel
rising to the ether on a thermal.

Have you trod amongst their spinning spirals?
And fancied you too could be light as air.
Drown as a water lily with naiads
calling you to follow a doctrinaire-

Ideal promised you - you can still follow.
And rise again like a water lily-
that time is endless and has no tomorrow.
Nothing we do is involuntary.
There are always choices worth their weight in gold.
Better the petal that hasn't fallen cold.