Painstaking Beauty
Pentastitch
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1 min readApr 1, 2020
How hard it must be to be a rose.
To be admired only from afar.
Never to be close enough to hold.
For even when you clip your thorns,
They’ll find a way to prick their fingers.
How hard it must be to be a rose.
To be admired only from afar.
Never to be close enough to hold.
For even when you clip your thorns,
They’ll find a way to prick their fingers.
Black. Poet. Human Being. Writer of all the above.