<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Story of My Flower</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Born a lovely flower <br>Watered with fresh water during rainy seasons <br>Sprinkled with just enough during the droughts <br>The flower lived to blossom <br>With scented petals and green leaves <br>in a pot so large to take all it could bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One sunny day<br>the pot with the flower was shifted<br>shifted to a completely new location <br>where it was deprived of the sunlight <br>and the abundance of water.<br>Necessary it was<br>A new start in a life supposedly so complete.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time went by<br>Nevertheless, the flower continued blooming<br>The petals now larger<br>The scent even more appealing<br>The flower survived even without the bare necessities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The now sensitive flower <br>Soon attracted the eyes of predators<br>A simple glance to start with<br>Then became a soft touch <br>Followed by multiples of rough care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon the flower started to lose its shape and form<br>Being given insufficient supply of water<br>Inappropriate fertilizers<br>And most of all the wrong attention.<br>At last it withered <br>After long hours of torture<br>Long days of loneliness<br>and years of abundance<br>it turned yellow, then brown<br>Finally, what remained was just a lifeless stem<br>standing in an old dirty pot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alexandra+Isnard">Alexandra Isnard</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578495" data-title="The Story of My Flower de Alexandra Isnard" data-description="Born a lovely flower Watered with fresh water during rainy seasons Sprinkled with just enough during the droughts The flower lived to blossom With scented petals and green leaves in a pot so large to take all it could bear. One sunny day the..."></div> </div> </div>

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