Comments and Criticism welcome.

You weave a great image here - I really like your lanterns/daffodils comparison. (The sunflowers don't ring as true to me, though. I can't really put them in the "broken lanterns" mindset as well as I can for the daffodils.) I think you might need a comma after "weep" though :)

I agree with the comma. Also, the use of 'sunflower' for me was just wordplay...sunflower/moonlight...I used it as a way to explain lost hope/new hope. Or rather seasonal beauty as opposed to eternal beauty. This piece to me is about loss/death with the contrast of light/dark. Although the flowers are dead and their 'light'/'beauty' extinguished there is still light within the universe...moonlight/stars. I find it interesting how when people find something beautiful and meaningful to them perish they focus on those aspects of loss, rather than, the 'light'/'beauty' that still exists in their lives...the beauty that is eternal. The willows weeping is also seasonal...portraying that even sadness is not eternal and in time will be overcome.