her earth's tenth poem

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i am a phase

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i am a phase.
no one loves me for long.
they love me right before
my petals start to welt.
they wrinkled up
like i had hoped you would too
with me.
but instead
my petals apologize
for wanting you to understand them
when they couldn't let themselves be understood.

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