and some flowers will die anyway is a poetry collection by Taryn Riddle that invites readers to embrace the fragile and fleeting nature of being alive despite one's own feelings of anticipatory grief.
Through grief and acceptance, these poems ask us to stop mistaking endings for failures. Because the hard truth is, everything beautiful carries an expiration date. People grow apart. Seasons end. Flowers fade and leaves fall.
This collection reminds us we must persist. We will continue to love, hope, and plant gardens we may never see fully grown. And we will do it for the mere sake of having loved and lived to the fullest extent we are able to in our short time here: nothing more, nothing less.
