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This Fact We Know
December 14, 2016
This fact we know that we are human,
we kill the flowers that are blooming,
to gain some beauty in our lives,
to snip their buds with sharpened knives,
to take their subtle hues then,
We take them from fellow crewman,
and make them take part, our gloom in
sorrowful tears they hear our cries,
This fact we know.
We've taken them from their fusion,
from the ground that they once grew in,
to make our lives seem less vile,
perchance to make someone smile.
But the world lives on in gloom and
this fact we know.
© Brian G., Phoenix, AZ
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This piece was a challenge to write simply because it fit the very strict confines of a rondeau. Yet I wanted to create something organic, something that would flow and seem as if it were unscripted, and I feel this poem does that exact thing.