Love & Life
Love blooms like a desert rose—
wild, stubborn, and beautiful.
Every rose has its soft petals
and its sharp thorns.
Beauty wrapped in barbed wire.
The sweetest things draw blood,
and the rarest things take courage.
But we love anyway—
because real love is like roses and barbed wire:
beautiful and dangerous,
strong as a storm,
sweet as sugar,
and seductively sour.