Letter to a Dying Houseplant

Free verse to save a life

Szen Szen
the Cafe
Published in
1 min readMar 10, 2020

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Photo by Alexis Chloe on Unsplash

You tireless thing of beauty. It’s been a long struggle ever since you were lain in poor soil by ignorant hands.

You’ve been overwatered, underwatered, given only fluorescent light when you needed direct sunshine. Abused with leftover coffee not yet cooled, befouled with cigarette butts, passed from home to home like an unwanted orphan.

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