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Royal Blood, Royal Body

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Published: Dec 21, 2010

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Literature Text

Living lightly and in haste
Flowers have no time to waste
If they wish to live with love
They must craft their petals of
The finest of the fleeting things
Beauty on their rosy wings
Loveliness is all you'll see
If with them you choose to be

Yet there is another kind
Hardly searching, you will find
Something that they call a weed
Yet it still grows from a seed
It still blooms, though with less grace
Than the flower's pretty face
Do you wish for these things? Never.
Only 'cause they last forever.

Perhaps, though, if you gave a chance
To all the blooming garden plants
A certain precious thing would make
Its home just past your garden gate
You'd find its gorgeousness unending
Its splendor always there befriending
All the passing eyes it meets
Every living being it greets
Would hear this endless beauty say;
"Here forever I will stay."

One of my favourites. I wrote it for a friend.
It was based off the idea that in life it always seems like you can't have one thing without forsaking the other, and we were speculating why that is. It really seemed in some situations that one cannot be happy without hurting someone else or giving up something completely.
I personally believe it's because oftentimes, humans don't deserve to have both. They're not willing to change for something greater. That's just me, though. I'd love to chat with you about it