Lawanya Wijesekara
A flower’s life on earth
is shortened,
as it’s plucked
from the ground it’s born
Yet its death is celebrated
in a glass coffin of a vase…
Death becomes melodramatic
A sight, news, a story to tell
A movie to be made
A celebration, a parable
than the life that is lived..
And they live, like the flowers
in glass vases
celebrating death,
long after they’ve