Lotus

Do you still remember that rainy day
when you held each raindrop
with your outstretched petals,
as though to catch a lover's
precious tears?

Or perhaps as though to catch each drop
before they disappeared
into a pond too large and frightful
to imagine.

When strangers walk past,
you give them a smile
and the sense of peace
perhaps you can never feel,

as you waited, with your lonely beauty.