I heard tale of a girl who became disillusioned with her life<\/p>\n
Her mother says it was school<\/p>\n
Her teachers say it was her home<\/p>\n
Her friends say it was something else entirely<\/p>\n
They say she found a secret garden filled with all the flowers in the world<\/p>\n
She’d visit after school, making the garden her own<\/p>\n
She told them the flowers were special, that instead of water they needed secrets<\/p>\n
And secrets she gave them<\/p>\n
Every day after school she stayed for hours, talking to those flowers<\/p>\n
Giving them every secret she could thing of<\/p>\n
In return they listened and listened and listened<\/p>\n
And grew and grew and grew<\/p>\n
Until one day she returned empty-handed, all her secrets spilled<\/p>\n
The flowers shouted and shouted and shouted<\/p>\n
They shouted every secret back at her in one deafening burst<\/p>\n
Filling her head with every secret every girl had ever told them<\/p>\n
Now her mother and her teachers say she ran away from home<\/p>\n
But her friends – they say she became a flower that day in the secret garden<\/p>\n
Waiting and listening for secrets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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