the flowers bloom. Each in their own time.
But not those — not the ones from cold greenhouses. Not the ones from the city’s elegant flower shops.
Those flowers don’t bloom out of will. They are grown and calculated. Planned according to the number of couples that rise every day.
And I don’t even know who those couples are. I don’t know their names, if they’re young or old. If they’re lovers, siblings. I only know that they exist.
They are the ones who make the flowers bloom nonstop inside glass too dirty to see through.
Do they really grow there? I wonder if the people who place them feel pain when they cut them.
But the couples... they cry and celebrate as they hand over beautiful flowers —
Flowers that survive no season.
The rose, deep down, was never a symbol of resilience. Nor of love. It’s just that cacti aren’t pretty enough to be offered as a sign of affection.
So the rose dies, just as often as it is born. And no one cares.
Because the ones who cry... are the couple — with joy.
They only cry in sorrow when the one receiving the flower dies before seeing its color.
And remains there, like the greenhouse flowers: Cold. Beautiful. But breathless.
And if you were given a flower... where would you place it?










