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If Fault Must Be Had

The most fleeting of seasons

By Daniel Charles PorterPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Top Story - January 2022
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If fault must be had,

it does not lie with the flower

which dies all too soon,

depriving us of its heady radiance.

For a flower lives just as it is supposed to,

full of delightful purpose and perfection,

an explosion of unabated love.

Perhaps the fault, instead, lies with us

for, while looking over the flower’s

withered petals upon the ground

and blowing lost upon the breeze,

we believe that somehow the flower

was supposed to live until we had

our fill of its magnificent splendor,

that somehow the flower existed for us,

when, in fact, we would never have had our fill

and would have basked forever in its beauty.

If fault must be had,

it must lie simply in the profound

ache we feel at the loss of that

elegance we once gazed upon

and stroked with gentle fingertips

in that most fleeting of seasons

love poems
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