Behind the scenes
he says with a small smile,
“Yeah, but you understood it for what it was.”
He says nothing, his hands busy with serving the food, I swallow. When I told the story of sunflowers keeping me alive, there were memes made of out of it. My dreary days at Sweet Home was made colorful because of a patch of sunflowers my neighbors kept by their windowsill that faced where I slept. For some reason I was fascinated by it, and told myself, I would either run away or... kill myself when it wilted, it never did.