Beautiful Flower
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Zoe Lee, Grade 7
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Poetry
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2021
Beautiful flower, your petals so small. So fragile.
This world is not made for you.
It will tear you apart.
You represent love, hope, sadness, remorse.
We do not deserve you.
We cannot care for you.
But we need you, you are the language we all speak.
The language of love, of kindness, of understanding.
This world will crush anything as beautiful as you.
Why do you stay?
We will never satisfy you, we can't love you,
yet you stay.
We pick you, shred you, crush you,
yet you stay.
Giving us joy we can never return.
Beautiful flower, we will never deserve you.