Rose

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she's a rose

but she isn't the flower;

she's the thorns,

bloodthirsty;

the more she drinks,

the more she grows,

sharp right up the end

and

the deeper it stings,

the more we'd know

how it feels like to suffer,

the longer it heals.

we're just victims,

not her sweethearts.

she's the thorns of a rose.

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she pricks like

the thorns of a rose,

but is as sweet

as the aroma

of its petal.

-n.d.

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