Flowers Never Lie (Except While Telling The Truth) Poem by Ted Sheridan

There is no need to be afraid of them child
they are only men.
Men who are afraid themselves of death
or of flowers.
Men of black and white
Who spend hours reading between pages
of black and white.
Men who never take sides on anything
unless it is a battlefield.
Where they fight from behind the lines
with pins on a deadly game board.
While soldiers die, they reap the profits
until their prophets scream death to them.
Or
until the flowers on a cemetery's lawn
scare them back into their mass graves
of reason, or the lack of it.
Men who fear a God of love.
Men who obey what they were taught
never questioning why.
Less they be struck dead by their idols.
Men who are themselves confused by themselves.
Men who are only men.
There is no need to fear them.
They fear each other more than you and me.
Fear only their ignorance of you
and above all fear your ignorance of them.
See them for what they really are.

Men who are afraid of the flowers.


Copyright © 2007 Ted G. Sheridan