A Bluish Violet Flower

A Bluish Violet Flower A bluish violet flower watches from the shore of an ancient riverbed A river born of fire when the Earth was new Sulfuric air, ground ripped apart from Earth’s upheaval Chemicals mixed with lightening to create life Single celled animals and ancient reptiles And a single plant on the burnt earth A single plant with a single bluish violet flower It lived its life with cooling water Cattails lined the shore A million flowers bloomed every spring Fish and turtles swam in its currents Children played on its shore Laughing and jumping into the refreshing waters The waters caressed the bluish violet flower Giving it life saving moisture Still the bluish violet flower watched the fish, the turtles and the children The river long ago died The riverbed that, from the beginning held life, is still now Rocks of sandstones and granite create a natural blanket The only fish are fossils of life millions of years old That bluish violet flower The one whose life began when time was young The one who watched when life began and thrived in a lonely riverbed It remembers the fish, the turtles, the children and the flowers That bluish violet flower still watches It watches the stillness and the silence And all alone it mourns