Wall Flower

I see you all, walking by me I am a wall flower in the dark And you're free to tell your secrets to a shadow Undeterred and unresponsive to the words around me I write my own But wall flowers don't speak A shadow can only listen Page after page, I write Words that come from another world. Like another hand wrote them And I'm just along for ride They take me away from the wall and my petals away from the shadows into the light and yet, I even I never acknowledged them, their power Then a page fell. You could read it I could be seen The flower taken and displayed A spotlight I thought I would flourish but when the words twisted in the eyes of the readers I only felt blinded by the light and uprooted to dry out I walked away, I stumbled, I got up I ran then I found it my plot of land in the sun I was a flower still yes, but I was turning into a garden words became my water my pen became my stem and for the first time when I watched the people walk by the stopped to smell my fragrance