what is that, anyway?

Perhaps it is a chrysallis, and something is about to be born.
Perhaps it is cellophane wrapping tossed in the trash or the gutter.
Perhaps it is a telescope's view of a newly-discovered astronomical formation.
Perhaps it is an abstract painting created by a chimpanzee, digitally.

Colorless in death
the blossom lies silently
in shallow water
waiting to decompose, or
for its portrait to be shot?