flowers always

flowers

mock love

mock grief

make a mockery of healing

as roses bite in treachery

and chrysanthemums wither

like our cherished ones

and flowers always

flowers

left behind

on the garden bench

with the way things were before.

*inspired by Camille on a Garden Bench by Claude Monet; image from Wikimedia Commons.

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