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March 6, 2011
By hope95 SILVER, Hamilton, Ohio
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hope95 SILVER, Hamilton, Ohio
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life is hard but death is cruel so put your big girl boots on and deal with it. my life has been harsh but im learning to deal with it one day at a time. life is like a box of chocolates, you never know watchya gonna get:)

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The beauty of a rose,
The delightful smell,
Softness of its petals.
The pain of the thorns,
The sharpness of the barbed wire,
Smells of fear.
Roses stick together,
Always alone.
Who would want that pain?
Even when people come around,
They leave soon after.
Roses,
They are my identity,
We are the same,
For we have the same thorns,
The same barbed wire,
The same pain.
Who wants us with our terrible,
Terrible painful thorns?
You can always pick the thorns off,
Take the roses' pain away.
Me?
I'm stuck with it.
Maybe roses aren't my true identity,
But the thorns they carry.
Thorns,
Barbed wire,
They are my identity.

© Lauren R., Edmond, OK

The author's comments:
i wrote this for english to show symbolism but i also feel as if it really fits me. im a teen just tryin to figure out who i am just as anybody else is, but maybe with a lil more difficulty.
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hope95 SILVER said...
on Nov. 20 2011 at 3:59 pm
hope95 SILVER, Hamilton, Ohio
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life is hard but death is cruel so put your big girl boots on and deal with it. my life has been harsh but im learning to deal with it one day at a time. life is like a box of chocolates, you never know watchya gonna get:)

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thank you:)
freeflow23 GOLD said...
on Jun. 13 2011 at 5:30 pm
freeflow23 GOLD, Durham, North Carolina
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Saul saw Goliath as too big to kill. David saw he was too big to miss.<br /> W.W.J.D.

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I like the underlying depressive feeling in this. I LOVE the last 5 lines.