Wilting Flowers

What be those there upon the shelf

their brilliance bright with cheer

delight to eyes olfactories caught

the flowers sent one dear

Their scent now wafting through the room

a symbol commitment's place

and charm of love and radiance

for absence's warm embrace

A compromise from stationed point

transfixed and now undone

by colored petals accessorized

the fresh onset begun

But alas by passing time

florals commence to fade

while wading through the grief aligned

with compromise unmade

The pain, the ache of heart and mind

delve deep emotions' care

the crevices of disappoint

once quiet now aware

And one by one the petals fall

and darken brilliant gleam

till all sink low to downward pall

once bright but now unseen

Decay shall they these cheerful blooms

their wilting fatal blow

What once gave joy now cast as spell

of rottenness below

But alas those wilting ones

of love's portrait prolonged

might be replace by fresh anew

dimensional and strong

And thus be our relationships

once bright and filled with cheer

the happiness, the overwhelm

the love of fate so near

But like the fading flowers fall

too many drift away

and glowing dream of joy-filled life

and closeness now doth stray

But like the fading flowers fell

and softened petals died

replaced with new ones fresh to smell

the old ones cast aside

And thus alas those wilting ones

of love's portrait prolonged

are now replaced by fresh anew

dimensional and strong