Flirtatious Flower

Flirtatious flower, oh how you flirt

Your perfume masks the scent of death

Your bright colors signaling forth

Beckoning for one to partake of its nectar

 

Flirtatious flower, oh how you flirt

Your vibrant green stem

Brings forth life giving fluid

From the blood-stained soil

 

Flirtatious flower, oh how you flirt

Snaring and digging through

Layers upon layers of

Bodies buried in the dirt

 

Flirtatious flower, oh how you flirt

Nutrients from the fallen

Deep beneath blades of grass

Silencing their dying calls

 

Flirtatious flower, oh how you flirt

Your roots connecting the rot

That bores through the bones

And connects the dead to the living

 

Flirtatious flower, oh how you kill

As you fool armies to march

How your scent commands them

How your lies move them

 

Flirtatious flower, oh how you kill

Turning brother against brother,

Sister against sister, mother against mother

Lovers against lovers

 

Flirtatious flower, oh how you kill

Denying those of their freedoms

Digging your thorns into their minds

Injecting your venom to claim their lives

 

Flirtatious flower, oh how you kill

Claiming anyone and everyone

Showing no mercy to anyone

But the most devote of your admirers

 

Flirtatious flower, oh how you kill

All of your supporters, all of your opposers

Leaving no one to support your stalk

As you begin to wilt

 

Flirtatious flower, oh how you die

With no one to love you, no one to cry

May your rot feed those next to live

Whose lives you tried to deny