Duet of Man and Flower

[Man]
Man breathes beneath the stars
Beneath indifferent skies
Still somehow this borrowed breath
Feels sacred even as it flees

[Man]
Man was never promised
A meaning from above
Within breath’s ebb and flow
Man feels gracious love

[Flower]
Flower opens because
The morning opens too
The sunlight climbs softly
And teaches flower to turn

[Flower]
Flower drinks the rainfall
And bends beneath the day
The earth keeps no sorrow
It only yields to the morrow

[Man]
Man has held another
With trembling mortal hands
And held a human kindness
Against the silent stars

[Man]
Without this gracious breathing
Man would not be
No memory, grief, or tenderness
No reaching towards sky-lofted sea

[Man]
Man hears silent heavens

[Flower]
Flower hears the rain

[Man]
Man breathing in the sunlight

[Together]
Grace from beyond the stars

[Round begins]

[Man]
Man breathes beneath the stars
Yet still man rises
Still breathing feels like grace
Beneath indifferent skies

[Flower enters underneath]

[Flower]
Flower opens because
The morning opens too
Rain upon flower’s petals
Sunlight's unfolding warmth

[Continue overlapping]

[Man]
Without this gracious breathing
Man would not be

[Flower]
The seasons pass through flower
In sunlight, rain, and mist

[Man]
And somehow in the darkness
Hands still reach for hands

[Flower]
And somehow in the morning
Flower learns the shape of light

[Man]
Man breathes beneath the stars
Man rises, loving and beloved

[Flower]
Flower opens because
The morning opens too

[Man softer]
Still breathing feels like grace
Beneath indifferent skies

[Flower steady]
Flower does not question
The rain

[Man fades]

Yet still man and flower rise...

[Together]
Flower opens because
The morning opens too

The sunlight finds flower’s petals
And upon the man, casts unfolding warmth

Together man and flower dance
In the grace of breath and sun

And the rain...