By stardust205
Date: 2002 Mar 21
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desert flower

My love lays here like a lonely desert flower
Alone it lies
Nothing to shield it from the cruel sun
That threatens to steal its last drops of breath away
No rain to quench its thirst, or to have fallen upon it in hopes of hiding its tears
It quivers against the cold winds and hides in the darkness of the night
But yet it still blooms each day slowly and unsurely
Facing the world
A beautiful vulnerability
Opening its bright, fragile petals
Opening itself to embrace the new day, to find what it longs for
In hopes of bathing in warmth, and a gentle caress of rain that softly wipes its tears away
Longing to love with all its being and to be loved in return.