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Sunflower Sunflower


Sunflower sunflower where have you gone Your sunlight extinguished from this earth Your dark pit of growth trembling , shaken to its core by the ferocity of seasons Sunflower sunflower where have you gone You have all but taken my sanity to which is broke A delicate glass you cared for in your petals Now writhing in the shame of what you've done to me A delicate glass that is no longer delicate or whole or even exists on this plane of life Sunflower sunflower where have you gone Take my will, set my heart free from its brittle cage of bone, do what you wish, but you will not take MY sunlight down with you Sunflower sunflower where have you run off to Feel my ferocity instead Feel my petals rise and bloom in the splendor of spring and summer My heat radiating to you like old growing moss of a forest, in hope forgiveness can be found in your hollow pit. You may have yet to grow, but you charred my heart and seeped it's pieces into your pit. Forgiveness will not be earned And I shall writhe, now as a dried up, pressed flower, that once was, never to begin again, never to be WHOLE again, Until you come along again with your bittersweet words of honeysuckle and thorns Sunflower sunflower, I'm hoping someone else comes this time
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