Wilted Flowers

In the garden blooming with flowers
I was walking one day…
In awe of nature’s diversity
When my eyes came to rest upon them

Wilted flowers they were
And they stared at me blankly
Clearly out of place they were
But that look on them I can’t forget

“Why are we here?” they seemed to ask
A question I found impossible to answer
In the midst of the colourful array
A bunch of wilted flowers…

Once they too must have been in bloom
Bursting with colour
Brimming with fragrance
But today they stood like corpses

That time couldn’t come back
The days of their prime
The wheel had spun already
And that reminded me of you

The time we were together
Those few days of bliss
And today though you reside in my heart
A long distance has put us apart

I wish the clock was
A slave to my whims and wishes
But alas it isn’t
And I have to wait for the right time…

Days, weeks, months…
How long it will be I do not know
But I watered those wilted flowers
In the hope that time flies by….