The Greedy Flower
Lamine D.
Does the flower die from want of rain: whose
Soil that is by nature, greatly blessed?
Or just by fear of what it stands to lose?
Loss through his own design its chance to rest?
Disrupting soil: gnarled roots excavate
Unnecessary disruption: a waste
Aimless ambition logic could not sate
Dissolving roots, once elegant, to paste
Decay, caused by naivety progressed
Rebelling at stagnation leads to death
Youth and innocence, gone, progression: vexed
Avarice consumes the elegant wreath
A ruin of its own creation, lost
The glories of days past, life depleted
In an attempt to satisfy the cost
The pain of past could not be deleted
Luxury in place of necessity
The creature that is greed sleeps . . . restlessly
Lamine D.
Does the flower die from want of rain: whose
Soil that is by nature, greatly blessed?
Or just by fear of what it stands to lose?
Loss through his own design its chance to rest?
Disrupting soil: gnarled roots excavate
Unnecessary disruption: a waste
Aimless ambition logic could not sate
Dissolving roots, once elegant, to paste
Decay, caused by naivety progressed
Rebelling at stagnation leads to death
Youth and innocence, gone, progression: vexed
Avarice consumes the elegant wreath
A ruin of its own creation, lost
The glories of days past, life depleted
In an attempt to satisfy the cost
The pain of past could not be deleted
Luxury in place of necessity
The creature that is greed sleeps . . . restlessly