The perks of a temporary life

-wallflowers-

To understand this word, you may need to feel like a wallflower sometimes.
Imagine a Sea full of water & salt and a beach with sand & stones.
You are like the salt in the water,
there is much of it inside.
People may realize that you are there and that sometimes they feel the need to have you here,
but once in a while they forget your presence,
even though you may be important for the salty Sea.
People's minds & thoughts are like the stones which are placed  on the sand sometimes,
when the stones are next to the water,
they just get washed away.

Being a wallflower means once feeling important like the salt to the Sea and at the next moment you feel like the smallest piece of sand and nobody even realizes you are a part of the big beach.

It means being there but not really feeling like being there,
because sometimes you just need someone to tell you you are there and that you are more than a wallflower and even though this word may be melancholically beautiful,
it's still a sad word,
because people overhear and oversee you.

Just like a wallflower,
painted on the wall with soft colors,
which you can only see,
if you look close enough.

-inspired by the movie „The perks of being a wallflower"