It was perfect.
The most beautiful thing you may have ever seen.
The petals were just the perfect bubblegum shade.
Now they are slowly fading to a dead color.
The stem was a ripe green color.
Now it is turning gray like a tombstone.
The flower was constantly nourished.
What happened?
The petals are not just changing physically,
The support that once held them up like a streetlight
It is gone just as if the streetlight was hit by a car.
Falling limb by limb.
The petals are not just slowly dying, but the stem has lost control.
It won’t stay perfectly straight. It is bending to its side.
It was wilting. It was folding forward as if it had no support to stand.
It was perfect. What happened?
It can’t support itself no more
No matter the times it has tried to stick together.
It wasn’t the lily itself.
It was healthy until it got ruined.
When it realized, that is when it started to get drained
From its power.
It was wilting.
The once beautiful lily
Was now a dead seed
That can never be sowed again.
Amayah Marrero, from Lawncrest in Northeast Philadelphia is a junior at Franklin Towne Charter High School. She loves to write, but uses her creativity in many forms of art. Amayah loves to draw, paint, graphic design, and can-do nail art.