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What It's Like To Be A Flower
I’m wilting
like the dead petals of a rose
I’m falling apart
I started so well
Beautiful
Thriving
Living
Now I’m just
Simply
Not
I’m not beautiful
I’m not thriving
and I’m not even living
I may be alive
But Lord knows
I haven’t been living for a while
Sometimes I can still feel your ghost
Haunting me
Even if you aren’t dead
I can feel your thoughts
stabbing my heart
Like a yearning psychopath
You cut deeper than any blade ever could
I should know
I’ve tried to cut deeper on myself
You’ve made me wilt
Like a rotting rose
I’m nothing without the world
But you were my world
How do you just switch?
I don’t think you can
But you can pretend to
I still wonder if you miss me
Because I still miss you
I go through a lot
And I always want to tell you
Even though you never listened
I still feel you look at me and empathize
For just a second
But God forbid you show your true self to the world
Because who knows
Maybe they would all leave too
Maybe you don’t know yourself
And the psychopath takes over.
Maybe then you don’t know who you are.
I guess it’s just what I want to believe
That it’s not actually you
It’s just her trauma.
But I have to wonder
Why did your trauma
turn me into
a
dead
wilting
rose
?
Why did you let the psychopath take over?
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