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O’ my dearest love, I gather the world’s rarest petals for you— Ghost Orchid fragrance lingers in the marsh’s quiet air look, love, it fades then rises in the curve of my hands on the curve of your hips— like time like breath like us. But love is not only fleeting— it lingers it deepens love is touch, is warmth, the flush of skin beneath longing hands. Sweet Juliet Rose, color of the inside of your thigh the softest skin where my lips have been where time presses its thumbprint. Isn’t that what love is? The slow-blushed tender cheeks— the breath before the hand resting, waiting the bloom that knows it will fall but does not care. Yet love is more than softness— it survives even when the earth cracks even when the wind carries everything away. Love reaches— like roots like thirst. Ghost Flower, desert thirst your name is a mouthful of wind. But devotion— devotion is water is the split earth drinking. Roots stretch for you drinking deep of rain seeking the touch that finds mine— even in dust even in distance . But love does not always bloom in boldness— sometimes it’s the small fierce things that endure. Forget-Me-Not, small, fierce, sky-eyed witness— do you remember, love? First hands held, first inhale between words we never spoke yet always knew. Gentle, simple— forever new. Love is not just memory— it stands unshaken even when the tides rise. It holds firm radiant against the storms. Sea Dahlia clings to shifting sands salt-wind radiant— like us standing, laughing, when storms came when tides tried to take us, when the wind called let go— we held. Freedom and devotion— always always And when the waves recede love burns— bright, alive fierce as the flames that forge it. Fire Lily, you touch my eyes and I feel the burn— not the old hurt not the old flames but the warmth still hot still here. We walked through fire— our hair still scented with smoke our ribs lit from within. Yet now you turn to me golden and quiet still singing the love songs that carried us through. Even after fire, our bond cools like river-stone lays its hands upon the wound knits the broken earth with quiet roots. Purple Coneflower, healer in the wind-lashed prairie— your voice, love, a balm a salve when the world ached and we had nothing but each other and the quiet in-between. Healing comfort silk and lace wild devotion fierce grace. The morning light caresses your face. In the quietude, in the frost, love doesn’t fade— it turns to the light pulling warmth from even the coldest corners. Arctic Poppy, sun-seeker in endless cold— even in winter even in silence you turn to light pull it from my heart from my mouth from the frozen air between us. Courage, perseverance, hope and renewal— like florets bright on tundra’s edge you stand with me— a vow pressed in the palm of your soul. When the waters rise love doesn’t drown—it flourishes lifting its florets above the flood finding beauty in the murk. Swamp Rose Mallow, we awaken where the water takes our ankles where the mud climbs our calves where the world says drown— but love we rise. We flourish in the rot in the rich, black silt our sepals soft against the flood. Beauty amidst adversity purity passion rooted deep a flower born of swamp and stream. Even tears, love turns into jewels. What falls what breaks becomes the bloom that carries us forward. Queen’s Tears, jewel-drinker rain-fed marvel— isn’t that us, love? Taking what falls what spills— sorrow turns to petals wounds into song. Regal, bittersweet— love shifting growing— with every tear a jewel blooms a love only time bestows. Now I lay these at your feet, my dearest love— this bouquet of us this world this wilderness of us— petals and roots. No vase can hold us no garden tame— we are bloom and root, flood and fire storm and stillness— the reaching, the holding, the promises that never let go. We are petals in the wind yet always returning— the vow not spoken but known the breath between words the light that bends toward us even in the dark. Love— No garden can tame us— No wind can take us Not what time erases Nor what fades— But what remains.
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