Black Flower

"Black Flower"

A black flower
Upon my lawn
Upon my eye
In the midst of dawn

A blade of grass
Entangled in the stem
Others, normal flowers
No one remembers them

A petal falls
Upon the ground
A child picks the flower
Pockets it- safe, sound

A petal remains
Upon the lawn
As is ending
The time of dawn

And upon the yard
Shall forever lay the memory
While the lives of the rest
Are only temporary

A stub of stem
Upon the grass
Also tells a story
And may last

Across the streets
In a meadow
Millions of flowers dance
In a wind show

A white flower
In such field
To all bees
Is a yield

A boy so love struck
To pick it up
And puts it with water
Into a cup

The same young girl
Now had a white and a black
The single black petal
Is all she did lack

And in a scrapbook
They both lie
Memories of a boy and girl
Who were never shy


IDOMAD, 2007