Failure to Thrive

I feel like a dead flower.

Shriveled up.

Dark and ugly.

So fragile I just might break if I'm not careful.

Will there ever be someone who can revive me?

Will someone remind me that life is bright and colorful and beautiful?

I feel that the soil I have currently been planted in is dry. Empty.

Someone, please plant me in healthy soil where I can blossom and grow.

The cares of this world are choking me.

I feel starved of light and warmth and love.

I wish so much for care and compassion and to know someone loves me.

Because then I will blossom and grow and bring something to the world around me.

I won't feel that I'm living in vain.