Purple Pansy Poem by Cristina Ventura

So vivid it bleeds with the element that feeds it

So black it causes the darkest depths of the ocean to shudder

So toxic it burns all as it flows

So cancerous it chokes all as it grows


Purple pansy, purple pansy

How you dance in the shadows

Acid flower, acid flower

How you create to dispose

Noxious weed, noxious weed

How you warp and oppose


An embodiment of innocence expired to corpse

A delicate floret rooted in alkaloid tainted soil

A sparkling jewel with alluring lust

And all it touches reduced to dust