Flowers
Newly picked bouquets
line a fence, post to post,
by the beach - this must have been
the place she loved the most.
I stop to read inscriptions,
letters to a muted mind;
a last breath, a final footprint
on the Earth to which we bind.
A park bench and a silver plate
the centre of its back.
A loved one's sweet initiative
or a dying wish perhaps.
I read the rusted silver,
message ground in ivory letter:
"Our brightest flower, Jasmine.
Loved by anyone that met her."
'Two thousand six to twenty-ten',
said the weeping park bench tile.
I wonder all the folk who've read
this ode to taken child.
When the beach bouquets are wilted,
will someone take them from the posts?
Those dying flowers, the sobbing ink;
ghostly tributes to a ghost.
When the park bench cracks and faulters
and the reaper plays his role,
will someone save the dedicate
to a disembodied soul?