did i love you yesterday

From Ashes to Petals for the Impossible Sky

From ashes reborn,

Beauty and brilliance

flames made familiar no longer burn

Blooming

far far above them all

afflictions below now bare blunt teeth

Boughs strengthened by adversary

cannot be cut 

by the same hand

Yet the beguiling colors of the sky

will not rid of underhanded vines,

however, nor will purge the tender and kind 

Proud and certain

only because thou lean on

no other

It's always the tallest of flowers

adorning itself with the most

thorns

Does it not get lonely

so high up there?

Skies, though harmless, are only silent colors

Shape thou petals

into wings

but a flower cannot fly

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For those who rose a little too high from the ashes,

Let adversary strengthen but not cool your heart

Not all that surround you are weeds