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The Flowers are Hard to See

The Flowers are Hard to See

Idle Verse: A Poetry Feature

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The Flowers are Hard to See

Sometimes the flowers are hard to see

Those ones once framed and nailed upon our wall.

Yet I now remind myself,

Those flowers did not belong to you at all.

Their brightness, their beauty

Shone not because of you.

They deserve a life of freedom

Just as I do, too.

And they live on, everywhere I…

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