Wallflower

• Tamar Zehavi, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2018

You say I'm shy
Quiet
Lonely
I am a wallflower.
Forever I will decorate
The corner of the room
Fading away
Why don't I ever speak
You ask
I have nothing to say
I want to say
But my lips are sawn together
With my own trembling hands
And you will never ask
Again