Bloom

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Flowers bloom every season,

Each time with slight changes

I'm a flower of summer,

Each summer paints me in a new hue.


When I was but a bud,

10 summers ago,

The glowing yellow petals of my dad

Reached for me.

He told me that one day,

He'll see me grow into a flower so beautiful,

That all the flowers in the garden will look up to me.


When I was wilting,

5 summers ago,

I thought my days of blooming have passed,

Left my petals to fall and be one with the mud,

And that my yellow days were buried forever.


But I did bloom as beautiful as before,

4 summers ago,

The flower beside me held my petals in its own

It reminded me of the strength and beauty I still possess

And it taught me I've still got a lot of time

To grow and to reach all the dreams dangling above.


And I feel that growth,

This summer, I do

I understand what my father saw in me,

10 summers ago.

I truly feel everything the other flower told me 4 summers ago,

About how I am capable of touching those hard-earned fruits,

The ones the romantics call 'dreams'.

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