[RunAmokRampant]

The Hellenic Lotus

Glowing from the docile saffron sun
It's shower array of colours so vibrant
Entwined within radiance in twilight
Is the glistening morning blossum
With insight to such seemless grace
The Hellenic lotus quenches it's taste
For revealing to strive for
The fountain of sanctuary

Like the essence of a scarlet cup
The harbinger of spring
The candescent sculpture richly clothed
Feeling secure in the soft silk skin

Surrounded by great space
Looking ahead to find the brightest star
It's broad reaching flower spread out so far to see
While searching ways to help preserve
Sending out satellites to search the bleak

Then the leaves soured sombre
To look back upon it's self
To discover a racking girdle about it's stem
It's occupants in it's midst
Are uprooting to condemn
They are the soldiers inside
That continues the affliction
The lotus lays distraught from
Deep set suffocation

Beckons for those who chose to stay
Not before knowing that they
Only remained to equivocate
To present sure tell tale signs of trust
Within flatline sincerety
Parading accross it's quivering venose surface
Left off to leave bitter goodbye kisses

Before the flower shrivelled up to its last bright petal
The reminiscence opened up to uncover
Long lost children who lived in the lotus land
Who cut down the last of the branches
And savoured the endless taste
Of the ancient lotus fruit


--just a side note that by ancient greek legend the lotus was known to bear fruit 'which induced a state of dreamy and contended forgetfulness to those who ate it'
--also lotus land ('to live in a lotus land') means to 'consume unnecessarily large quantities of natural resources without consideration of future needs'