A Broken Sunflower
Cruel Cronos engraved me early,
not with gentleness,
but by hands of shadows
who mistook my springtime figure
for silence,
who thought my tears were seeds easily buried.
I was a sanctuary of lilies,
crushed before the bloom,
a jasmine bruised by shadows,
an innocent violet forced into stone.
Their voices were storms,
their laughter-chains of iron,
and I, too petite to fight,
learned the language of fear.
Yet within me, a sunflower spark
refusing to give up its soul,
rooted itself deeper,
drinking light even from darkness,
whispering: you are more than their hands,
you are more than their cruelty.
So I rose, piece by piece,
a wounded Rose of Venus,
crowned not by shame,
but by the fire of endurance.
Where they carved burning scars,
I carved flourishing constellations.
Where they plucked petals,
I grew wings of lavender and flame.
Now my voice is the garden restored:
not silent,
not broken,
but alive
a testament that innocence stolen
is not innocence lost,
that even from the deepest, darkest wound,
a sunflower can rise
and teach the world
what it means
to see, to feel,
and yet not become a shadow itself.
Category: Motivational poems
All author's poems: Flora Cocan ![]()
Date of posting: 23 July
Timp de citire: ~2 min.
Views: 247
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