Like A Withering Flower
- Kathryn

She must have felt this a thousand times before.
But this time, it's a lot more intense;
Like a virulent virus
Engulfing her system.
She's trying too hard to suppress the overwhelming feeling.
But the more she does, the stronger it becomes;
Threatening to destroy the very core of her being.
She's losing track of everything--
All her dreams, all her desires.

Her life was once the envy of all those around her.
She lived it to the fullest.
She danced, she sang.
She wrote poems about the beauty and madness of life.
She made friends, she laughed.
She managed to keep her life intact amidst all the dilemmas she's come to face with.
She went crazy, she did silly things.
And she WAS happy.

When she realizes that it's the very thing she longed for,
That life she thought she wanted all this time,
Is the exact definition of her perfect destruction,
She gradually withers.
Oblivious of the world outside of hers--
A world that breathes and emanates vibrance,
A world possessing life.

She saw it coming,
Yet she shrugged it off.
Not wanting to entertain the fact that she's dying inside.
Not wanting to face the blinding flash of the obvious...
Her life is altogether vanishing
Like a withering flower...