Blue Sunflowers/ Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers

Yellow vase,

yellow flowers,

somewhat fifteen

if you care

on a yellow table

against a yellow wall

of a different shade

A streak of white

right in the middle

close to where

he scrawled his name unsure-

a chipped off paint

or a vase perhaps too old

to hold the cheer

or just a shade misplaced

to convey something

more life-like

A few of the fifteen

looking straight in the viewer's face

Some with necks craned,

heads bent

to avoid the gaze

that'd see through

the charade of cheer

Some just waiting to wither,

soon as the artist is done,

surrendering to the vase-ly fate

Fifteen sunflowers

of varying shades

In a vase that is

playing opposites

with the colours 

of the wall and the table

Not a shade of blue anywhere

Ensured to keep the painting

sunny and flowery

in the yellow house it shared

with the artist

The many layers of the blue and grey

and the colourless

that went underneath

remain unseen to date