Time to Bloom

About this poem

I was inspired to write "Time to Bloom" while looking at a picture of my friend Cecilia and I on our last day together. Moreover, I always get very emotional when I stumble upon this picture in my camera roll, because it reminds me of the beautiful moments and the rare connection we formed last year in our eight months together. This picture also brings back some unwelcome memories I try to forget because long before she had arrived, I had trouble developing female relationships. At the beginning of the poem, I introduce the wilted flower as a symbol of my inability to form meaningful friendships and how that made me feel unwanted and essentially damaged. Furthermore, this weighed on me a lot because I saw most of my friends make these connections early on, which made me feel very isolated. In addition, the metaphor surrounding the idea of planting the flower into new soil signifies how I was kind of a floater friend, always in new friend groups that would never work out. Tha more »