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theme thirty.one - flower

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i.
your roots took hold in everything
that was poisonous to society; i told
myself it didn’t matter because the best
way to learn was from past mistakes


ii.
it wasn’t long until the cell wall stems that
kept you up began to bring us down; i could
taste the chlorophyll on your shaky breath
when you asked me if you were stable yet


iii.
but your pollen permeated through my
nostrils and our orchestrated sex; i tried my
best  to be your prince charming but you only
made love to the hordes of busy worker bees


iv.
and i always imagined your petals stretching
to the sky and the stars and everything beyond;
now they shrink and whither and fall to the ground
in shadows of everything that you could have been


v.
at night you crawl between my bed sheets and
tear my roots and snap my stems; you inhale
my pollen and peel my petals back from my skin
as you whisper that i love you, i love you not
entry thirty.one for the hundred themes challenge

your simple joy was tearing me apart


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verticalness's avatar
the ending just ties it all together beautifully.