My rose has thorns, long thorns. The kind that you barely touch and bleed the deepest crimson. But now my rose's thorns have turned to barbed wire. The beauty has been lost, and the pedals are wilting right before my eyes. Fear stabs into my heart like a thick, cold dagger.
"Why me?" one might ask. "Why must my rose now be cursed with this pain?"
As the flower finally falls completely apart, I hold my hand out to catch the final, crippled pedal. While it is not a special or magical rose, I still feel like it shouldn't have ended this way. Sadness overwhelms.
I stand to my feet again, and look around. It is then that I realize there are man