About the Poem
In life we all go through challenges and many of us handle these challenges in different ways. Some close up after being hurt, while others stay open to the world.
Which Do You Choose? |
| by Amanda Van Ast |
| I ask myself whether I want to be As open as a rose fresh and fragrant or to be hard and cold like a rock That weathers all that comes. For an open rose is thrown into A weathering storm torn and shredded it shall be. While a rock can be hit by lightning, Rolled by thunder, blown by wind, and poured upon Yet it dries and seems to be unharmed. Some say you can't be charmed? While others are only harmed. For I do not know any answers I only have the questions in my mind Those of which swirl like the sand In the middle of the Sahara Desert. For I do not know which I favor The rose or the rock. |
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Tia
I can totally relate to the poem. Very moving
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