Tiger Lily (Yesterday’s Flowers)

The flowers placed upon the lid

were beginning to wilt.

She had loved him

all those years.

All those years

their hearts had burned as one.

Even now,

as her heart had been wrenched

from her by force,

that flame still curled

it’s bitter tongues around

her cavernous longing.

‘Were I those empty petals,

and join him in that fire…’