It's A Love-Hate Thing (poetry)

Poem Eight

It's strange how our favourite
Smile can be that of a broken
Person.
It is something so precious and
Fragile, as a rose with its
Thorns.
Prickling and dangerous on the
Outside, a wall to protect us.
But all the while stunningly
Beautiful with a seething
Essence.

—If There Be Thorns//Shanielle Fiddler
Dec 3, 2018