Show them your wounds.
Show them your scars.
Show them your rusting prison bars.
All they will see.
And all they will know.
Their own walled garden where roses grow.
There may be thorns.
And velvet petals.
Perfumes that float amongst the nettles.
One to protect.
And one to fast hold.
For there is no universal mould.
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