Dusty

by RC DeWinter

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Title

Dusty

Artist

RC DeWinter

Medium

Painting - Digital Oils-paintography-photopainting

Description

The Queen of Flowers

We walked, holding hands, in a garden of riotous color
under a sun that showered everything in gold,
stopping often to admire flowers that glowed
like High Renaissance paintings.
In the surety of the alignment of our hearts
I glowed too;
I could feel my petals shining.

We made our way slowly through the rows
and ended up in a corner where a solitary rosebush grew.
Unlike the profusion of beauty blossoming elsewhere,
only one sorry rose bloomed on that bush -
an awkward, graceless offering,
an Aschenputtel in the drawing room.
"Look," you said, pointing at it. "It's you."

I stopped glowing, my petals curling inward
in a wave of hurt and shame.
Summoning every bit of steel in my spine
I laughed up into your smiling face
as my heart struggled to expel
the arrows you'd so carelessly volleyed there.
We left for dinner soon after.

The next time you called I was unavailable.
The time after that I ended it.
You, hurt and puzzled, never got an explanation.
But now, looking back, although you put it stupidly, clumsily,
I find myself agreeing with you.
I am the dark horse in a field of glittering champions,
an unremarkable rose in a glorious garden of bedding flowers -
but still, a rose.
~ copyright 2016 RC deWinter

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