Again, the ornamental cherries bloom
fruitlessly fake empty calories
dripping great gobs of frosting flowers
tempting things men told me
there’s a glow about you tonight
you are beautiful in the morning light
how wild and free you are
like a lion untamed
that last was the oddest heartfelt and
almost touching in the awkward way
of an eight-year-old who shuffles
and looks down as he hands
his mother the gift of his heart
artless and abundant the things
you hear when they want or don't want
how the petals drift and hurry on
the sharp breeze stripping spring
from cherry trees that will
never offer ripe flesh to summer’s heat
(c) 2019, by Hannah Six
Image: MaxPixel
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