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Just another walk in the park

Stopping by a wall

Honeysuckle vine.

Sweet cloying fragrance

Reminiscent

Of another time

Another place

Pulling one blossom

Removing stamen

One precious drop

Seminal honey

Bee designed

Unseen forces

Regeneration

Rebirth

Re-life.

Beyond delicate flower

Beyond seductive spring green

Tenacious vines struggle

Seeking moisture from the stones.

Beyond the vines

A wall

That something that something doesn’t love

A wall

State of early decay

Vines declaring early victory

Their right to live

The wall’s right to die.

There is sun here

Bright cloudless sky

A day echoing man’s desire for eternity.

The vine struggles against the wall

The wall fights to stay alive

The bees and time

Move more vines to more walls.

I remember the dewdrop

And past loves

Sighing without regret

I move on.