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Wallflowers

The sky is a shade of angry air

With the false illusion of gray

The kind that foreshadows agony

That never goes away

 

Skyscrapers high and paves on the ground

Serving as concrete masks

Wallflowers hide as wallflowers do

From people walking past

 

Never does a color floss

Through trench coats and slacks, all the same

Never does a person pass

Who knows more than your name

 

For wallflowers hide as wallflowers do

And no one really cares

For those wallflowers grow, ivy on brick

It never moves, but it's there.

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Written by
cameron-godfrey
American
Published
May 15, 2013
Lines·Words
16·91
Notes

"Why do they matter? The sky, the paves, the people who walk them? They don’t. Not to you, they don’t. But they matter to me. I am a noticer. I am The Noticer." - the story I'm trying to write.

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