I AM A FLOWER

I am a flower,
if you treat me tenderly
and with care,
I will bloom.
If you do not shelter me
from the storm and the wind,
I will lose my petals
and be left
as only thorns.
If you then discard me
for having pricked you
when you try to hold me,
and do not care for me,
I will never grow back.

But if you take me,
and hold me tenderly,
even when I am only thorns,-
If you shelter me,
and care for me,
and keep me safe,
then I will grow back
to a flower,
again.
8/2/06 Copyright ©2006 Ashi Shadow
Kind of general, but on Katie in part. earlier draft below.

I am a flower,
if you treat me tenderly
and with care,
I will bloom.
If you do not shelter me
from the storm and the wind,
I will be left
as only thorns.
If you then discard me
only because I pricked you,
and do not care for me,
I will never grow back.

But if you take me,
and hold me tenderly,
even when I am only thorns,
If you shelter me,
and care for me,
and keep me safe,
then I will grow back
to a flower,
again.