in the balance

with gravity,

her flowers hang in the balance

on the balcony.


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From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die...
William Shakespeare

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: it's loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness...
John Keats


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Truly, truly, I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat
falls into the earth and dies,
it remains alone;
but if it dies,
it bears much fruit.
John 12