Eternal Flowering

Why must you pick the flowers
that already belong to you?
Steal them away
to make love to an idea.
In your attempts to preserve a moment
you destroy me.
I die as the blade strikes.
I die as the sun shines.
I die as the bees pollinate.
No matter what violence or love
pierces the moment,
death cannot touch me.
Will you pick the flowers
tomorrow?