The Flowers In Your Garden Poem by RIC BASTASA

you are telling me that the flowers in your garden
must not be of one and the same kind
or else there will be so much boredom

you are telling me the need of variety:

roses and jasmines
and suntans and daisies, colors and scents all in multiplicity

as you talk your eyelashes curve a little lower than i expected
and your mouth twitches a little bit just to show your dislike
and contempt of the word:

boredom

unnecessary uniformity, that human need of variety
equated with a taste for something new
and even unusual

i completely agree with you.
Let me take you inside my heart
where my garden lies:

flowers of different colors and scents

i have grown them all inside my heart,

feelings of love and
desire, in a variety or sorts
in a diversification of breeds

and if by now you ask me and demand
that i may tell the truth
inside my heart, in my garden of love, you are a very beautiful flower
so sweet scented and well loved and cared by me

but there are other beautiful flowers growing in there,
you are not
just the one and only, as you would like to think
that to be

and i will tell you again,
I agree with you, there is a need really
for a variety,
the one that removes the word

boredom

from the beautiful garden of our vocabulary.