Cab Ride

Scattered petals of cherry blossoms
Cut across the sunset's gaze
To find rest
Within the cool breath of its shadows

The time for peaceful meditations
And restoration of friendships
Ended

Splintered magnolian hearts wilt on branched veins
The spring had barely commenced
Before the icy fangs of death
Sank into its lonely shoulder

The breeze opens an entrancing ballet
Of pollen grains

Dancing, shape-shifting dragonflies
In the wind, they drift

Away

To do as pollen grains do
After a flower opens up to die.