Bring Me Flowers

Tanka Poem

Line Art Illustration Lubna Yusuf

I’m going to sleep
Bring me sweet flowers today
So I can smell life
Before I lay in the ground
covered in white truth of earth

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
- Anonymous

As we grow older and move closer to death, we realise how temporary and transient we are, so we must stop and smell the flowers.

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