I planted a bulb in the ground last spring
A purple tulip
And I have waited for the long months
Through the snow and the invisible fire
For a switch in the ground to be flipped
And a bulb to light up
But my bulb refuses to grow
I have spilt my blood for this ground
Dig deep
Dig deep and you will find
The missing artery that I am looking for
And with my hands in the brown ground operating theater
The real farmers with their life support machines
Watch dissaprovingly and lean on their dull weapons
Tsking me and think that to see someone care that much over something that small is downright obscene
Purple tulip
Why do you refuse to sprout by my hand?
Purple tulip I planted you
And all I ask for is the simple act of
being
But I never was any good at playing promethious
The heat hidden under my shirt burns me before i can deliver it

Purple tulip
I know you were buried but i never intended it to be a funeral
Purple tulip
Im sorry Im sorry
I stuck my hands in you and now the dirt is spewed everywhere
I should never have interfered

And now I have corrupted the memory of the flower that never was
By writing about it
HERE
and pulling its corpse
Out of the ground
HERE

I suppose some things
Die
When you pull them out into the open

But now ill go back
With destruction staining on my hands
And see if i cant plant something else
Perhaps some edible fruit
Now I understand
Beauty should never be a reason alone for wanting something to be

Good write Lizard

thanku


there r 2 musical numbers in movies which inspired this poem which i feel i should name
I didnt plagiarize off of either or anything but the flower poem idea came from them

1st is the song seymour sings in little shop of horrors telling the (unbeknownst 2 him talking cannibal) plant 2 grow

the other is poem/song about the "pretty flower" sung by Lorenzo saint dumas (his friends call him lsd) in the 1st version of the producers

I liked the musical "Little Shop of Horrors"
The music was great!

such delicate promises
too shallow and the chipmunks have a free treat
too deep and they rot before they can reach the light...