Windflower

Windflower

The white anemone flower is named after the Greek word for “wind” and is often referred to as “windflower.” Like the wind which comes and goes, the flower is associated with emotions experienced in various seasons of life, particularly despair and abandonment.

In the silence of dusk

I persist alone.

   Who will remember?

   Who will return?

Wind swirls up dust

carrying it through broken windows

of what used to be a home

ringing with laughter.

Now grime and frost settle on

rotting hardwood floors,

and cobwebs collect in the

fireplace that once blazed bright

on cold winter nights.

   Nobody will remember.

   Nobody will return.

Time ticks on incessantly,

and memories drift.

Even my fragile bloom

awaits its time to depart.

But my fragrance still lingers

faintly in the wind—

   For whoever remembers.

   For whoever returns.