The other evening as I was strolling across a vast field of daisies, my heart suddenly came to remembering my adoration for you, so I reached down to pick one or two or may be a few to send as a gift to you.  But suddenly as I reached down to pick one another daisy pushed that one aside and shouted,  "No, pick me I want her to gaze me, with delight!"
     I was shocked.  Again another one shoved that one aside and exclaimed,  "No, don't pick him, I want to be held in her soft hands as she lifts me so smell my fragrance with her cute little nose."
     You may not believe this really happened but it's true.  Apparently, sensing my adoration for you My beloved, these daisies started to fight for attention.  Still, the jostle continued and determination was solid.  Soon, a whole cluster began stirring up in front of me, and jumped on top of each other.  As they ranted on in a fluster,
     "No, I want to gaze into her lovely, precious eyes that glitter in the light."
     "No, no, let me look upon her gorgeous face of such divine beauty."
     "Wait, wait, pin me onto her clothes so I can smell the fragrance of her alluring perfume."
     "My goodness!"  I thought, to myself,  "What has gotten into these daisies that were once so pleasant.  Is my love for you so
strong that I have projected my feeling onto you?"
     But that was not all.  Within seconds the fight had spr
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to the daisies at both my sides and behind my back until I was encircled by, fighting daisies.  So there I was, trying to keep my balance in the midst of the fare.  As I heard even more declarations of love and adoration for your mere associations.
     You were not even there.  Yet these daisies had gone mad over you. 
    "Let me be the one sitting in a vase of water in her room so that I can be with her, until I wither!"
     "Get away!"  one shouted, pushing the other side, "I want to be in her presents for that matter!"
     "Move aside, I'll be the one to see her smile and hear her contagious laugh that will be music to my ears."
     "No put me in her dark luscious hair that smells like a bed of roses."
     Pretty soon, the battle had spiraled outward to the whole field causing a full-scale war to break out into epic proportions.  What an awesome sight it was my darling, to see these peaceful plant life suddenly turn into...
      War Daisies!
     All because of you.
     Now the battle had risen to cataclysmic proportions, as daisy warred against daisy, sprouting out arms of sharp thorns as deadly weapons to slash each other to smithereens, leaving just bits and  pieces of petals, leaves and stems on what used to be
a field. 
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