Forevermore

Where did the flowers on my grave go?

When was your last death?

You ask of my last breath?

Yes indeed.

You hold greed.

Why so?

You never grow,
with a need so strong to ever know,
and a face so warm that I wonder why there's snow.

You speak of my mind?

I speak if you're kind,
you listen with thought,
not greed or distraught,
you will be until vast uncertainty.

Then what must I be?

A flower,
waving brilliantly.

But I do not want to be a flower.

Why so?

Because I do not want to devour,
my only light,
the only thing I see,
and I do not want it buried inside of me.

Then you will wilt!
A flower indeed must fulfill a monstrous need,
but there is no worry.
If you hurry,
you may just avoid the sting of the bee.

Will I live in harmony?

If you plead.
If you shout to the earth,
if you find it worth,
your strife and your life.
In fact, the cut of a knife,
and your stem will fall beneath your petals,
all so feeble and dull as it settles.

Will I grow to be a tree?

We will see.
Are you worthy?

I want to be.
I want to be free.
Above the cold,
and above the wet,
I want to be bold,
and yet never fret.
I want to lead the bees astray,
and keep the winter at bay,
as I grow tall and firm,
and soon I will learn,
how to live,
and be okay.

Author's Note

Imagine this as two voices arguing against one another. Like the world is shouting.

Reviews

[Davidgeo]

Too much rhyme makes baby Jesus cry as he is aborted by angry orangutans with an axe to grind against humanity. Baby.

[Dominik D. Rites]

ok? should i be concerned?

[Davidgeo]

Call the rhyme police, tell them you have demands.

[Dominik D. Rites]

it's a poem? idk if you're just joking around here or saying that i rhyme too much.

[Davidgeo]

Just for my taste. A lot of people like it. I think it's an overreliance on kind of a simple gimmick. If course, I do it myself sometimes... don't take offense to my very subjective observation.

[Davidgeo]

(I meant "of course" not "if course".... damn those typos)

[Dominik D. Rites]

It's fine. I was just puzzled as to why rhyming was so annoying to you, but I suppose it makes sense if you hear it so often that it's like listening to the same song over and over again. I just thought of rhyming since I'm a song writer and that's just what I normally do lol but yeah I get what you mean

[Davidgeo]

I rhyme all the time. My initials are FU.