Month: November 2012

  • Confessions of a Heartbroken Sunflower

    Confessions of aHeartbroken Sunflower

    When a sunflower is ripped apart
    By catastrophic weather
    She must find a way
    To put herself back together

    Sometimes a sunflower grows weary of thinking
    “Will I ever see the sun again?”
    The endless rainclouds fuel much doubt

    She wonders how to end her relentless sighing
    “How do I re-blossom again?”
    Thickening fog keeps anxiety and confusion about

    The world no longer makes sense,
    So many petals strewn in disconnection;
    The toll of daily fog and rain
    Causes many glitches in her navigation

    So...

    She wraps herself up in a new flowerbud
    Holding the memory of the sun's reassuring rays in her mind,
    She simply sits inside herself alone, closes her eyes:
    Waits for the fog to lift, the anxiety to dissipate
    Confusion to fall wayside and clear the skies

    During the sunflower's time of quiet self-restoration
    The rain-clouds of doubt conspire against the sun
    With misunderstood reasoning

    Instead of allowing the sun's silent warmth to be supportive,
    These doubt-clouds convince him to block out his warmth completely!

    How excruciating for the sunflower,
    Who was finally discovering her own smile
    To turn affectionately toward the sun
    And find only a cold and empty void

    As an acute sense of anxiety and despair manifests within
    Half-healed heartbreaks new and old once again stain her thoughts,
    The sunflower stumbles blindly about in her work-in-progress state,
    Cursing her treacherous doubt-clouds for so much disharmony,
    Into the darkened fog, searching adamantly for the lost/hidden sunshine.

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    (Background: Lost in Paradise - Evanescence)