Challenge
Please Don’t Send Me Flowers
Your interpretation your format. 250 word MAX.
Villanelle
I don’t need beautiful things in these hours,
I have no more sand in my hourglass.
Today do not send flowers.
Blooms cannot reach my towers,
My sister will love them to her let these comforts pass,
I don’t need sympathies in these hours.
To my family such a thing empowers,
But not I, alas,
To me do not send flowers.
Clouds shed tearful showers,
For today one last time my loved ones amass,
I don’t need decorations in these hours.
Final brief encounters,
In a bed sealed by bronze and grass,
At this time do not send flowers.
Like all things that time devours
For now, I reside in a peaceful morass,
From you I need nothing else after these hours,
So please to me today, do not send flowers.
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