Tillandsia

True love does not need soil to grow.
In desert air, bright orchids bloom.
Their secret is to take it slow.

Like air plants on a patio
or Spanish moss upon a tomb,
true love does not need soil to grow.

Forced paperwhites may even show
their brightest light in winter’s gloom.
Their secret is to take it slow.

We have no soil and yet we sow
our seeds beneath a paper moon.
True love does not need soil to grow.

I’m not much of a Romeo -
a rootless love could be my doom.
My secret is to take it slow.

For now, we have this status quo.
We occupy this little room.
True love does not need soil to grow.
The secret is to take it slow.