Cut Flower

I wrote this after a short fling with a beautiful yet vapid person- they bought me tulips&I saw the similarity between our fling and the flowers which never had a chance to properly live&take root...

you and were a cut flower

a bright red tulip, brimming with passion

a tiny red ruby on a white fur

a pulse of life in a cadaver

at first, the green bud seems promising

soon to burst with life and beauty

an exciting sentiment soon to be expressed,

the promise of a sweet first kiss

the flower opens, beautiful as promised

perfect, symmetrical, ideal

a hollywood dream, 

scented and sensual 

but in time it opens too wide, gaping

the sex organs grotesquely displayed

the petals weakening at the edges

our passion leaks

we are short-lived; transient 

although we deny it

we know that the petals are withering

soon to fall

as the first petal falls 

we cling to hope, to each other

we are young, full of passion! our young love

is surely not fading so soon?

we are not so much red now as pink

arguments start, the flower is dying

the once delicate fragile scent is 

pungent with the aroma of death

clinging on to hope as the last petal falls

withered and brown

I tell you that I love you but

we both know that I am lying 

cut flowers die, we knew this from the beginning

they are beautiful, perfect 

and their life; our life is achingly fleeting

bittersweet

Author's Note

they are supposed to be in short stanzas but writerscafe always takes out my spaces :(

Reviews

[Alessander]

all life is transitory, passions fleeting, lives mortal...

but beauty blooms regardless.

Didn't even think you need the intro part - anyone with a half a brain can connect the metaphor of the flower to passing passion.

there were a few spots that you could trim a bit, but overall an emotional write.

BTW, is that the tulip you're holding in your avatar? just curious.

[Zainab UF]

The metaphor of the cut flower is very much apt, in this poem brimming with emotions. This is so beautiful.... so perfect.

Keep up the good work! :)

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oh wow, i totallt loved this, love the emotions through out.

[demureminds]

This is such a beautiful poem. I love the deep emotions you put into it and the metaphor of a cut flower is just plain remarkable. I just love this. You are a brilliant writer! Looking forward to the rest your work.