my wild iris

lament for a friend continue...
once, i've found a wild iris, on my journey thru life. it's was december that year. i watch you grow wild, narrow spiky green leaves with blue-violet petals on bloom. you're wild, you're free. there's no fence, there's no wall that seal you. in the floor of rock layered with lichens, shaded by bark of tree you survive thru all this time. i see the beauty of your bloom, blue-violet petals arranged so well by God. the beauty captures and mesmerizes me, leaving my burdens behind.

one day i've found that one of your leaves is scratched, wounded by nature. maybe a being came across you, without realize it hurts you. but as your nature goes, you keep growing wild, despite the wounds in your leaves. i do nothing but to look after you each time i had time, each time i come to see you. to see how you are doing in the wild, how you grow your bloom thru mist of the forest edge. my feeling never change, although your beauty are broken, but you are my beautiful wild iris, as the first time i see you.

time goes by, as i continue my journey to seek love and happiness. leaving you behind, but keeping you in my mind. i know you can take care of yourself my wild iris. it's been years by then, when i remember my wild iris in the forest edge, how it's been doing. city colorful light and techno sound can't ever change the way i feel about wild, about you my beautiful iris. i decided to visit you, to see how you've been doing these years.

i walk on the path where i've leave you behind in past. i look for the edge where i know you grow there. time has change this forest and paths are crossing here and there. the sun is almost set when suddenly i see the tree bark, with a hole at center. lies in its root, there where you grow as wild. a memory of your flower petals, your green leaves put my steps closer and closer to you. but, where is my lovely wild iris? i've found nothing but dead and dry shapes of leaves, layered above the rock. are you my one wild iris? i'm asking, but get nothing in reply, the forest silently whispering a sad sound.

i feel on my knees, whispering to wind and to the night. my wild iris, forgive me as i fail to taking care of you. i never thought that my wild iris would come to die. wild iris, you keep me strong thru years in my life, keeping my steps forward on my journey. now, all i have is a memory of a wild iris, a wild beauty that i ever know. i keep you in my mind and hold your memory in my heart. i will never find another you, another wild iris that i love and care. now you time is done, my time hasn't come yet. farewell my wild iris, farewell to my lovely one.
i just hope wherever you are right now, you are doing fine. nothing can hurt you and pain can't touch you anymore. now in the other side you are once again free. free as you are my wild iris.