What color are your favorite flowers when they die?

torture used to be dungeons 
and devices that split open orifices;
now torture is a glitchy Zoom,
FOMO from everyone watching
the Abercrombie doc without me
not knowing Sam could draw amazing.

everything is relative.

when your flowers start blooming
beautiful yellow, bold violet,
soaking up the sun before 
wilting and drooping and decaying
downward towards earth
and their destiny of demise. 

the way you see the world depends on your point of view and context.

you don't need traumatic reason
to believe in something as bigger, because
death is longer than life,
but less important,
and your boss will fill your position
in a week if you kicked the bucket. 

the rate at which time passes depends on your frame of reference.

the animals, the plants
the people, the flowers,
life in its entirety,
everything that ever is or was
is your perspective, your experiences,
your actions, your thoughts, our point-of-view.