Barren Beauty

Desert bloom so solitary in your beauty

Surrounded on every side by 

Rough, hard, dry, cracked earth. 

How is it that you bloom so freely?

Without tending and care and planning?

How did you come to be in so barren a land as this?

Your vibrant colors should be backed by a curtain of green

Lush, living, and moist with heaven's dew.

You should be one of thousands there - in those more fertile lands.

Ah, perhaps there was planning in your sowing after all.

Perhaps it was His plan that planted you here.

He knowing how you could grow in barren lands.

You add beauty where else there was none.

You bloom despite the adversity that surrounds

 Or perhaps, Beauty in the Barren land, you bloom because of it.