Goodbye

Close up photo of a flower with dried and crumbling petals.

Sorry you’re dying
beautiful little flower;
say hi to my mum.

Years

Photo of an undated grave with the name, Strange, in bold letters.

A war had ended,
yet more battles they did brew—
each year marked by deaths.

Old

close up photo of decaying daisies in the bush with fresh daisies around it

Destroying itself,
feeds the next generation—
a week-old flower.

Graveyard

photo of the gravestone of a 76 year-old man with a plastic toy gun lying on it

Uncanny couple:
an old man and a toy gun—
may they rest in peace.

Storyteller

a grave enclosed in metal railings, part of which is broken and scattered in the ground nearby — Cemetery, Melrose, South Australia

Crumbled bones, grave sites,
enduring the test of time—
tell stories of gore.