Death Flower

Death Flower
I was walking in a park full of different kinds of flowers one early morning in summer. There was nobody around. Suddenly and out of the blue I caught the sight of a young lady not older than 25. She looked sad and absorbed. Then I saw her go to a plant which had only one big red flower. She kept looking at it for a long time and then all of a sudden started singing the following lines:

Prithee, stop crying Flower
To the grave we go together
The grave is narrow and thin
Full of snakes and vermin

It’s raining, it’s raining
And the rain wind is cold
If they come inquiring
Say we both lost our hold

When she stopped singing she was all tears. I didn’t want to intrude on her grief and thoughts but my curiosity left me no peace. When she left I went to have a look. I must say I am not good at identifying flowers but I think it was a kind of gladiolus which was covered with dew.

Comments:
I can sense the immortal nature of art versus the mortal nature of human, or art versus time.

The red flower with dew drops on it succeeds in creating a sense of living passion. The morning dew suggests the dawning of life, whereas the enflamed, red colour of the flower suggests passion, truth, beauty, essence, art. These belong to the transcendent and incorporeal world of art, which never dies out, nor does it dwindle in intensity and significance with the passage of time. The girl laments over life s ephemeral existence, but I m sure the flower s connotations are eternal; they are larger than life.

To the grave we go together
The grave is narrow and thin
Full of snakes and vermin

The grave is full of snakes and vermin - it belongs with the real world, that s where the human flesh goes. Human life is transcendent, we know that and yet we go through life as though we lived for ever. And as we do it, we neglect the little details of life, the red flowers, the dewdrops in the morning, and rush through the day without meditating about the indomitable passage of time.


Jamshid
Bremen - Germany

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