Long gone roses

The roses were red

The violets once blue
And I cry for the world 
that they never knew
 
The violets have wilted
The rose petals gone
The dark sky an astringent reminder 
of where we went wrong
 
What are these things called roses
And violets, what are they 
We should have thought about our world
And how we could affect it in future days
 
Long gone are all the roses
Long gone are the violets so blue
Long gone are all the people
because we didn't think our actions through
 
So instead of thinking about heaven
and hell in the after life
The only afterlife we should think of 
Is the one we leave behind
 
Author's Notes/Comments: 

Please ignore the bad punctuation; it's just a thought.

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