Destruction of Nihilism

            Destruction of Nihilism

 

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The silence of the flowers is heard by ears

Inside the ribcage, there inside curved bones,

Their marrow.  Silence of the flowers fills years

Of clear eternity, prophetic zones.

The fragrance of the flowers fills depths of souls

And when the flowers are fragranceless to nose

Of man, an inner organ, heart or lung, patrols

The landscape of the spirit, past time’s snows

For cleanliness of purity.  If flowers

Lack colors, eyes seek through Nirvana for

A specter’s blink of tint outside the powers

Of senses.  Martyrs all we yearn for more.

  When blossoms are too insubstantial to

      Be touched, they turn to antimatter blue.

Phillip Whidden