Old-Rose

a wilting flower’s qualities are just as admirable as that of a freshly bloomed rose unlike their sprightly counterparts, shriveled flowerheads project wisdom experience and growth their browning petals dangle with a lifetime’s worth of memories as their stem grows weary from withstanding the windiest of storms their lifeless leaves once fed the hungriest bees and their roots still venture beneath the turning soil although their physical beauty deteriorates against the test of time their memory lives on with each grain of pollen whisked away by the breeze drooping stems are a mere glimpse into the progression of nature for the death of one flower leads to the blossoming of another