Insanity

Never did a sunflower grow while hiding in the shade of day

When dusk and dawn collide

then crash

               down

into the universe expanding onto a black canvas

Where everything and nothing coexist

And it is right

...

Never did a sunflower grow while hiding in the shade of day

When rhyme and reason cease to make sense

and instead,

                -time stops

…

Never did a sunflower grow while trying to grow as another flower

T'would be silly,

                    am I wrong for thinking so?

For if a rose has a thorn

and a bed has a frame

then what shoes do jesters wear?

Or do they wear any at all?

…

Never did a sunflower grow while hiding in the shade of day

After envy sank her fangs into its small neck

injecting her lethal poison

             as she skirted away

       with a crowd cheering close behind

while the sunflower withered into a mere skeleton of what it could have become