Sacrificing Plants In The Name Of Love Poem by Christopher Tye

Sacrificing Plants In The Name Of Love

Every valentine's day a massacre of red rose blooms,
In the name of love so many flowers life's cut short,
Bunches of carnations and chrysanthemums on mothers day,
Flowers stuck in plastic buckets on petrol station forecourts,
Oh the humanity of it all cutting life short for love,
All those flower arrangements at weddings,
Bunches of flowers for anniversaries and birthdays,
And think of all the vegetables at romantic dinners,
All those trees cut down for cards and gift wrap,
Then there is all the cocoa beans for boxes of chocolates,
At the end of life there's still more flowers and cards,
Funny how we humans celebrate life and love by sacrificing it.

By Christopher Tye