Empty Containers

The empty containers sit on the speakers

Once holding full bouquets of flowers

Well meaning tokens of the thoughts

Of a family in tears

The flowers contained, the hopes of friends

Flowers cut from the root , dying

One by one the blossoms do fade, dropping

Surrendering to time

The containers now sit empty, piled together

The flowers have been discarded

The thoughts of the friends have withered

But the family is still in tears

While the world progresses and spins again

Time stands still in the family with tears

Pain slows the clock and their hearts

Longing for the child who is now apart

Those flowers were kind and thoughtful I guess

But they did little to heal the hearts in this mess

When the flowers are gone, the tears remain

And those empty containers remind us again