Sunflower
There you are sunflower
I combed through you petal by petal
Searching for answers in your light
You and I are pot and kettle burning to find how we're alike
Yearning to find what I love the most and hate the least
with every sway to east my love increased
but then you ceased
Because I held your stem and swayed you west
The leaf on your neck drooped and dangled but that's the angle I liked you best
I see you sunflower
A fragile little fellow
More than the sky is blue
you're my favorite hue of yellow
I combed through you petal by petal sniffing your calming musk
When i exhaled your scent prevailed but some blades blew off in the gust
Still a handsome gem, you are
More than ever before
A gem indeed is the stem you need to hold your brown core
When shadows cascade to your leafy green
I've seen what makes the world go round
Your romantic whistle in the wind is my favorite sound
I know you sunflower
You are drawn to me
But even I can see you struggle to shine
I focus and notice the bend in your spine
Are you still mine?
I comb through you petal by petal
So much less than I started with
I think you're my sunflower
So I settle because the perfect flower doesn't exist
You are my sunflower
But you've become less patient
Our loving times feel almost ancient
Nothing I do seems to dispel your gloom?
Sunflower, why can't you just bloom?
Do you do this on purpose to keep me at bay?
As if day by day you're wilting away
Does it really matter the direction you sway?!
Where are you sunflower
You're so brass and uptight
Your petals keep falling between the blades of grass that kept you upright
I'm tired of combing through you petal by petal
trying to find what I once saw in you
What's left of your yellow is a darker hue
So long you fragile fellow
There are plenty of sunflowers in the meadow
Our past is blurry but clear to me are sun rays and beams binging and singing on the fresher flowers
We're not that alike, the pot and kettle
Loving you became hard as heavy metal
Because I combed through you petal by petal
Copyright © Jahnell Stephenson | Year Posted 2026
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