Poem -

the flower dies

author
Stefan badham.

how glorious you were
the colour
the life 
how wonderful you were
the symmetry
the function
and how now dead you are
the petals
each one
fallen 
how the blood in you
ceased to flow 
how the life in you
was ushered away

 

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