Smart flower

There is a rare flower

that lives

which nobody knows

a kind of species

when held,

its petals open to bloom

all the knowledge of the world

the secrets of history

of language and philosophy

a brain teaser, a brain gym

You saw its beauty

and in your heart, you desired her

but as you came

to pluck the stem from its body

in your big hands,

its petals were cruelly crushed

dying in your arms;

Now you've lost your chance

to learn the things of intellect and wonder

knowledge to you she could've impart

and made you a great man

but now she is dead

no other flower like her 

lives.