Petals

Have you ever noticed how beautiful a flower looks when it first blooms?

It sprouts, blooms, it flowers and it's almost perfect.

And it stays like that for awhile, using its inner defenses to keep it stable. To make sure nothing ruins that perfect statue it's been able to uphold.

Aslong as the suns shining it should be just fine right?
That's not always the case.

It starts to break down when even 1 outside force enters, or maybe the inner defenses weaken.

the petals fall.

One by one, they fall onto the soil—and suddenly it's not perfect anymore.

Suddenly no one calls it beautiful.

Because of that one imperfection, that flowers into several.

It's withering, and withering till it buckles and suddenly it's not the alluring flower everyone feasted their eyes upon.

It's not the same flower everyone praised.

It suddenly blends in—with the soil beneath.

At times, Onika felt like a flower—who's trying its best not to loose its petals.

Beyoncé on the other hand, believes that her—herself has already lost all her petals.