Vulnerable !

Afraid of getting pricked by thorns
at the places that already hurt,
many of us are,
so we admire,
admire the rose from afar,
till the time
the heart knows for sure,
holding the rose,
won’t make it wither,
and only then is crossed
the ocean of vulnerability,

-themoonlightreverie

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