A scent so strong, but yet so sweet; The colour that reveals itself, shines happily It calms It silences And then it grows strong The face so gentle The head so strong But then a heart so fragile Something can go wrong My hands all ******* Then my body suddenly turned into a shield Im protecting what im fighting for Im protecting what isnt real I turned away I shut everyone out I turned into ticks that pierce right through my body The vicious thorns force me to bleed out every fear Im struggling inside the garden of mazes I struggle to untie my knots My blood flows into the stem My veins are snapped from the thorns I learned to defend but now im completely protected I have built a garden, then i grew what decided to pierce me I grew a rose that replaced what couldnt be new I screamed And then i yelled with different volumes I wanted to break myself My pedals are slowly falling My thorns are growing fast My body continues to wrap around my space Im in the middle of trying to let myself go