Forever Awake

Flowers gasping for care
are flowers that remain without light,
smothered within a rainbow plastic wrap,
as if suffocation was their destiny.

Petals now lay languid atop a kitchen table
begging to be caressed,
to be touched for remembrance,
to feel the deep breath that lifts their fragrance,
a bouquet remaining robbed of life,
given but received by no one,
snapshot never taken,
a never-happened night
forever awake.