Fragile

by Nicole Evangelista

Young Women’s Leadership Academy

Nicole Evangelista is a junior at the Young Women's Leadership Academy and will graduate in the summer of 2025.  She has been writing for two years now and has been previously published in the Young Pegasus Poetry Competition 2023 with her poem titled "For Emily Skaja".

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How can one faithful flower

betray its stem?

That see-through 

wall

reveals the 

glass that

has lost 

its shine.

How could you ever say those words to me?

I’m just a fragile flower

who is 

looking

for 

its stem.

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