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Rated: ASR · Poetry · Satire · #2036206
This is tongue-in-cheek Not everyone likes flowers - if you pick them!

Innocent coral -colored flora
with yellow stamen of little use
ruthlessly plucked,
broken at the stem -
by greedy hands
crushing delicate petals
that are left to wither and die
on a white tissue.

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