Children should learn not to pluck flowers
For to learn to love something from afar
Is indeed an act of beautiful self-restraint
And when they grow and search for someone to love
They would not pick the most beautiful of them all
Inspect them in their fingers and,
When they wither,
Toss them afar.
Children should learn not to pluck flowers
For it is selfish to hoard such beauty
All to oneself
Instead they should learn,
That a flower is the prettiest
Nestled in its stem and leaves
Rather than in human hands.
Children should learn not to pluck flowers
And to sympathize with every living thing
They should try to understand a flower's pain
When they snatch it from their everything
And reduce them to nothing.
They should, at a point, come to the epiphany
That a flower in their hands,
Though beautiful,
Is actually dead.
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An Epiphany For The Flowers
PoetryThis is a philosophical poem which, not only is literal but also metaphorical. The first stanza ventures the fact that how beautiful things are often taken for granted. But beauty does not last forever. Even a flower has to wither someday. A person...
