Christopher Goss Poet Free verse

The Last Flower

The Last Flower

For centuries there thrived a magnificent garden
But decades of decay made the ground harden
And year after year more flowers began to wilt
Coinciding with monoliths recently built

Some people have the audacity to ask why
While others insist all that exists will one day die
But when the sun is hidden by smog
It obfuscates life like fog

We suffer today and sell tomorrow
For future generations will feel that sorrow
In a world without any power
And eventually a world without any flowers

For centuries there thrived a magnificent garden
But decades of decay made the ground harden
And the last flower has begun to wilt
As the monoliths collapse do you feel any guilt?

And they'll tell you they tried and tried
As the Earth cried and cried
Your children's future was sold for profit
Because green gold is the modern prophet

In this moonlit masquerade are a lot of dancers
Feeding the frenzied fury of a thousand cancers
Perhaps humanity's greatest blunder
Is bumbling along as it all goes under

The reality is that nobody cried
When the last flower finally died
But the reality is it left us daunted
And all a little haunted

For centuries there thrived a magnificent garden
But decades of decay made the ground harden
The death of the last flower left us without rhyme
As we truly begin to run out of time...

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