A rhyme I promised; a rhyme you get! OK, it's more of a ballad but let's leave out the small details…
Dead Gardens
Flowers faded, heartstrings jaded…
With my heart this garden dies
Dying in my senseless eyes.
I gaze upon my garden faded
This elephant graveyard shall be no more!
I pledge my tomb to the goddess herself
And set about to rejuvenate her core.
Tut! Daisy flowers and poppies will not do!
After all I am the bringer of death
Yes…an alien landscape, devoid of hope
I know! I'll dedicate it to my best friend Seth
And by the light of the blue grey moon
I staple my soul into the harsh earth hole
These flowers will not be of the usual kind
Broken rich and golden red blooms.
My beauties shall wake up soon from the dead
They'll get inside your thoughts, inside your very head.
Exoticating, intoxicating to bewitch your feeble mind
Enervating, exhilarating to render your senses blind.
Jealous snapdragons are set free to roam
Thorny tendrils tear fruit from the womb
An explosion of colour, double edged sword
A garden of death to announce my passing doom.
The knight lays his sword upon his last resting place
The pale pallor of his skin glows milky like the moon
Savage flowers tear him back into his grave
Back into the heart of his mother's womb.
Flowers faded, heartstrings jaded…
With my heart this garden dies
Right before my very eyes.
Kind of ran away with the fairies for a bit- make what you will of the penultimate stanza- I'll leave interpretations for now.