Inner Woman Volume 2
48 Carnations

I gave her carnations

Every color for all the things

I would never say

this Mother’s Day

All the regrets

All the love

All the pain

All the loss

Peach, pale pink rose

for a mother’s love

she’s never shown me

Purple for the regret

sadness and grief

because she wouldn’t

Yellow because under it all

I knew what I could not

say aloud, I wished her

pain as I feel it now

White for the pureness of

love I wish was reality

Red for the passionate love

I’ll never be able to give

In the center of the bouquet

A green carnation

symbol of who I am,

of unnatural love, she cannot

accept who I am

Mother dearest

who will sniff their spicy scent

and never see the message

a broken heart sent

Duty calls you see

Even if I must deny

I am me