Of Youth and Flowers

a young boy was walking in a dark nasty forest one day
when he spotted the most beautiful, bright flower and bent down to say
"what are you blooming in a place like this for?
of course you stick out here like a sore
but you are hiding, to be seen nevermore"
the flower said back a retort
"Boy, dont you know that life is short?
and while it may contain no meaning,
if you linger in the dark long enough you will find it there, something gleaming
something so bright it almost lights a path
it gives you a direction, a future, and a past."
aggravated the boy looked at the flower with a sinister grin
and thought to himself how frail how thin?
he went to snatch the flower from the earth but stopped to complain
"if you truly believe that you are a fool, a dreamer, nearly insane.
in this life you must take all you can whenever it pleases
for you can never know when a down-pore ceases.
there is no time to wander aimlessly in the dark
looking for "lights" to leave their mark.
life is made of what you make not what you find
think about that as i sever your vines.
for unlike you i do not go searching while blind
i take what i want, thus all i want is now mine."