Every Rose Has A Thorn
written by: Lindsay Soberano Wilson
Every rose
has a thorn, and yet
remains eternal
in its grace.
That’s why the mirror
with the engraved rose
weathering
and not withering
just fluttering,
simply dropping
and hanging on,
left a stain
on my
heart.
It was placed
in our home
overtop
the mantle
even
though
our hearts
were bleeding
like bleeding hearts
in
the
garden
to
hide
the
ugly
with
the
beauty
of a
single,
silent
dusty pink
rose.
The mirror became a point of contention: just another beauty to resent. So beautiful and yet so tragic when all that it touches it pricks — a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Is the rose too perfect? Or must it stand alone in her birthright? The birthright they stole from her, as they stripped her of her thorns.
And preserved her in glass with no air to breathe in a museum. Just like the rose in The Little Prince.
There’s a reason every rose has its thorn, and yet is eternal
in its grace. It’s because every rose has its thorn.
It’s whether or not you still smell it, water it, feed it, adorn it, and display it when it pricks. That’s what makes it unconditional, isn’t it? Or is it? Which one is it? The rose or the thorn? Do you have to accept one to accept the other?
A single, silent, dusty pink rose, that is.
Because “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
- Every Rose Has A Thorn - October 8, 2025
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- Spotlight On Writers – Lindsay Soberano Wilson - October 5, 2024
