Flower of Life
That seed from the sperm
Germinates from the soil of the womb in its term
Till time is up, the seed remains calm and fragile
The nurturing and maturing outburst it into stem and leaves so fragile
In innocence and cry, springs the young to this unknown mystery
At that point or even before, the choice is not in your hands in the disarray
In this disarray, if the young plant is favored, the leaves groom greener
With the strong stem upheld by the sperm provider
And feeding from a root source of the womb bearer
If fortunate, the youth now needs to make use of the serene condition to shoot flower
Here the plant needs to put up much of effort to utilize the opportunity
Unfortunate plants are like plantain sucker planted by the wayside
Which due to wear and tear never prospers and dies in wretchedness
Or bare flowers that are soon blown away by the windy wayward winds
For its fruits, forget it!
Fortunate are the plants that shut out flowers
So beautiful and colourful with the wish of lasting forever
That questionable matter of long struggling to understand eternity
Oh eternity our wishful partner but enemy with that shroud of darkness over you
The beauty of flower soon fades and browns if not blown away
The flower with no beauty, sweet scent and exposer
No bee will fed it with pollens;
The pollens that when received begins the success journey
Fading and browning till it generates fruits
Like caterpillar processing into a butterfly
The flower has to shrink into a dark pupa
Then the flower flourishes into its fruit
The fruit is what beholds the plant
The beauty of the flower is long gone
As the fruit surfaces
If the fruit is sour or bitter
With no benefit of even quenching a thirst
The beauty and the resilience of the flower cannot be remembered
The flower that bore good fruit will forever be remembered
And here eternity becomes a partner indeed
For the flower is captured in the archives,
No matter how ugly the flower looked.
Copyright © Ahyia Amankwah | Year Posted 2019
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