Shiuli from October | #NaPoWriMo2020

Prompt: Write a poem from the point of view if your favorite fictional character.

Character: Shiuli from October

They named me Shiuli, after the flower

That blossoms and withers in a flash

How could they expect me to live forever?

I used to collect them in my childhood

You can't pluck them, only pick up when they fall

But there was nobody to pick me when I fell

They put in hours of relentless energy

To infuse life in a body dead as a vegetable

Dan came as a curious surprise to me

I still wonder why an irritated, arrogant guy like him

Would take care of me with unparalleled devotion

I think he wanted to ask me something

Something I couldn't answer when I was almost alive

I didn't realise when Dan became my habit

I started looking forward to Shiuli brought by him

It's fragrance caused a little disturbance in me

Wanting to get up and make garlands of it all over again

But what's inevitable has to be accepted, sooner or later

Yet I thank Dan, for making my fragrance linger

As two lifeless souls lived through each other

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