Among Roses
Growing from and Forgiving the Honesty of Another
When I searched
inside
even the deepest part
I saw
that my heart
held only intricately woven roses
a lattice of thorns
and I couldn’t grasp whether to mourn or to
marvel
at the gentle, yet fragile
purity.
Suddenly
when a benevolent truth
from some troubled
but honest
cloud
poured its worries on the soil there
the thorns melted away to reveal a timid brown teardrop
wrapped in loneliness
a promise of a strong and invincible
yellow
flower
Daffodil among the roses
Though I seem to have
ascended the sky
and
placed new roots among the
moon and stars
with the roses
I will always remain
intertwined.
About the Creator
Noah Rodriguez
A multiracial gay med student/writer and NYC native. I believe identity is something that is creatively built, discovered, shared, and transformed, and healing can come from that.
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