There was a plant in a little flower pot, I loved it dearly and watered it daily
Little and susceptible to everything it depended on me
I liked the way it looked amongst the likes of the much larger trees
I noticed all its progress, made accounts for them even when it had grown just barely
It was my dearest and fairest.
Soon she was big enough to sit amongst the trees who seemed to touch the sky,
And then I knew she needed more the occasional hose, she was finally ready for more than just a pint
Oh how she had grown, I was excited, but scared to move her from her infant clothes, cuz how could I? It is all she has ever known
Oh that I must let go of my dearest child - what a dread, however could I?
Fingers feeling, folding, finding — The tangled truth beneath the soil,
Roots pressed tight against their prison, pleading for space to breathe.
I dug with care, a place of freedom, a home with no constraints or binds
Carving out a cradle grander, a place where she could stretch and stand,
A world where thirst would be no worry.
Roots pressed tight against their prison, pleading for space to breathe.
I dug with care, a place of freedom, a home with no constraints or binds
Carving out a cradle grander, a place where she could stretch and stand,
A world where thirst would be no worry.
But oh, I drowned her in devotion.
Water wept from my hands like mercy, but mercy turned to grave. Her roots, once strong, grew soft and silent,
Their whispers lost beneath the weight of my unwarranted love.
The soil soured, the leaves wept yellow, her breath became a sigh.
And in my arms, she withered—and died
Their whispers lost beneath the weight of my unwarranted love.
The soil soured, the leaves wept yellow, her breath became a sigh.
And in my arms, she withered—and died
For love, too much, had been her undoing.
This is the cruelty of affection.
"The Lovers II" – René Magritte (1928)
about the work - 'The Lovers II' A haunting metaphor for the suffocation of intimacy. They are close physically but utterly veiled—love as blindness, or emotional entrapment.
