By: Kamille Pangantihon
Artwork by Chris Harold Medina
Roses, sunflowers, and tulips
They blossom from different gardens
Gleaming with vibrant colors
Diffusing fragrant aromas
Beautiful, romantic, majestic
They grew alluringly in opposite seasons
Yet they share a synonymous fate
They will be handpicked and soon wither
Some will be tossed in the sky with glee
Some will be drifted along with the waves of sea
Some will be offered, some will be returned
And some will be kept in between a thousand words
– stored within the pages of an old, dusty book
Their pigments will wash off and their petals will crumble
But what’s beautiful about flowers
Is that they carry a lasting scent of nostalgia
A scent that will remain and endure for a long while
Precious in their peculiar ways
All of them made a momentous stay
I hope that you, too, will find your enchanting style
To be remembered and kept, like a timeless garden flower
