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Roses
December 7, 2020
Your beauty holds unknown grace
But you build around you, sharp thorns
To protect yourself from what I ask?
The prettiest flower in the garden
but doesn't even know their worth
A tragic tale of the fate you were destined to receive
© Kathleen S., Maumee, OH
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SparrowSun ELITE said...
on Sep. 11 2021 at 10:02 pm
i prefer the thorns to roses...
I hear a lot about songs that are about sunflowers wanting to be roses. And this and this poem is about those roses who don't even know there a rose ironic but tragic