I gifted you to the one I love

With a heart filled with hope and joy

Watched you being ignored, hurt, abused and mangled

Ruined, disrespected and discarded

Tonight I think of you

Laying in a bin

Along with other refuse

You went before me

Thank you for holding him up all this time

Thank you for the life you gave both him and I.

Goodbye dear friend

Remembered with love and gratitude always. 

 Orchids in moonlight.... so beautiful . But it needed a lot of care, a lot of fuss and pampering... with a lot of strife and care it grew, then it got tired and withered away. The orchid really did not know nor care. Then maybe the Gardner became wiser. He threw away the withered old Orchid, changed the soil and grew more plants.. but this time , ones that needed less care and strife,  that would survive and serve a purpose than just gleam awhile in the moonlight and wither away.....