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Flourished

May 23, 2023
By Anonymous

Begun as a cracked and rotten seedling

Now expectedly as a beautifully blossomed flower

But is far from it

It is a lily whose stems are not to their complete thickness

It is a dahlia whose vast flowers have not fully bloomed

It is a sweet pea whose tones of peach, fuscia, and periwinkle are muted and mundane

The seed has grown from its rotten beginnings

But is still speckled with its past as a bud


We have composted our soil and watered generously

All in attempts for it to bloom as a flower

We have changed the angles of where the sunlight hits

Yet not fully sprouted

We have snipped off the perished vines

Still has not bloomed to its potential


We two have tried to grow our flower together

And we have

I simply feel discomfort in its current state

I love the woman with whom I garden with

And though we are not to our potential in growth

I will be eternally grateful my mother and I have flourished to the bud we are now

© Anonymous

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This is about my relationship with my mother.

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