A rose in the river
There are occasional bunches of roses tied to shelters or to the river bank here. Someone loved must have been lost.
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Occasionally I see them, not in wilted bunches but singly, floating downstream.
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They are powerful symbols of love. They have probably been flown here, only to float down the river to the sea.
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There are entire airport terminals in Nairobi dedicated to the cut flower trade. 100,000 Kenyans work in cut flowers and support 2,000,000 people indirectly.
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It’s an enormous, global, multi-billion dollar industry for the most personal and intimate of moments. I’m left contemplating global trade and personal loss as it drifts gently away downstream and finally out of sight.