floral atrophy

stem blooms into neurological blossom

cerebellum receptacle , cerebral flower

petals so gentle find themselves ripped astray

falling from subconscious in frantic despair

revealing the white that lurks under the grey

petals fallen rot away

leaving a desecrated bloom in their wake

what's gone leads the bloom astray

as it cannot give what it did not take

sense of self begins decay

autumn lacking summers warmth

sun begins to fall earlier still

lacking light the blossom finds itself

unable to hold its form

the flower grows irrational

grasping for what's long been gone

but left without permanence the flower does not comprehend

and the desirous blossom grows further gaunt

every bloom will meet its end

despite efforts of immortality

as days grow short and nights grow long

and as temperatures plummet and terrain begins to frost

a blossom ceases to be

floral atrophy