phototropism
phot • tot • ro • pism
\ fō-ˈtä-trə-ˌpi-zəm \
1. is the love story of sunflowers from 5 am anxiety attacks till the sunset. but when the sun is replaced by other stars that are much farther away (thesaurus correction: the concept of love seem farther away) and they don't trust the ever-changing (f/ph)a (c/s)ses of the moon;
do you ever wonder who they turn to?
2. fact: they turn to each other. to find solace in the cold wind and all things inevitable, one looks for someone who can they get close to (in the sunflower field) that can make it (the cold wind) seem like nothing at all. phototropism has always been defined as the involuntary movement towards the sun. towards a valiant light. towards a valiant love. towards a valiant method & hypothesis of tragedy.
3. the sun is a social construct; a love story of sunflowers from 5 am anxiety attacks till the sunset. here's what they don't tell you: sunflowers were historically me and you. here's what they don't tell you: at a poet's touch you falter away from fact and turn into a false phenomenon that can only be reversed by true & reckless love but thing is, if that was the case, then i therefore conclude--
4. romeo, oh romeo, my romeo,
all along i was too blind to see,
that you have always loved the sun
so much more than me.
-for after all, Shakespeare inked thag "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun," tell me, how many times was i not enough to turn to once the daylight was done?
-Rosalind
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love; and other disorders
Poetry"i just sat there, coughing frightful swans birthed from milk grapefruit flower love to swim in the pools of midnight, as you (with your fingers slightly touching mine) charmed the half-crazed moon with a rare rosen wine berry into what we were: a 2...
