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The Gardener

By: SpiralBreeze
folder Poetry › Free Verse
Rating: Adult +
Chapters: 1
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Disclaimer: This is a work of poetry. Any resemblance of characters to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The Author holds exclusive rights to this work. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited.

The Gardener

The Gardener

Unlike the flowers in your room

The ones on my kitchen table are dead

They died like an old lady dies with no one but the nightstand next to her

They took their last breath long before you presented them to me,

But your flowers are still living

Pulsing with the sickly sweet smell of blood

Perfuming the air with their sickly sweet scent.

You look at them daily,

Tend to them nightly

And all along their petals keep falling

Crumbling beneath your huge footprints.

You failed to keep them moist

I watered mine

And kept them in a vase

Where the sun could hit their yet to decay petals.

Tell me,

After all this,

Who is the better gardener?