VASE OF FLOWERS

The vase of flowers she gave me is still on my desk.  The flowers have all dried but have not lost their affect.  I’m hesitant to through them out.  I guess I could, I have their memory and I’ll be able to save the vase.  Should I keep the vase or should I give it back to her?  If I keep it does it really enable me to hold on to her memory?  If she gets the vase back would she think that I was giving a piece her heart back to her?  If she never gets the vase back maybe she’ll forget about me and the feelings that went into the flowers that came in it.  The vase is simple and by itself not worth that much.  In-fact the flowers are not that costly.  The feelings behind those flowers and the simple vase that holds them are where the value comes from.  So even if the flowers have died, leaving a simple vase, the love that came in it isn’t lost. Love was given and I accepted it into my heart.  My heart can not die and has the love that she gave to me.

For now I will leave the dried flowers in the vase on my desk.  I don’t see the dried lifeless flowers anyway – I see her love.  That is a nice thing to have.  Maybe someday we can renew our love.  I will fill the vase with fresh cut flowers of the spring and give them to her.  Like the vase, we’ll share the flowers of our lives in that same simple vase.