Just as some people are addicted to the stars,
I am fascinated by your beauty
Your kindred soul and its unblemished purity
Seeping through the cracks of your barbed wire wrapped in haste
Scaring those without the patience
to stick through thick and thin
or courage to be pricked by the thorns
to see the rose within.

Pizzerelle Marquis is a budding writer from the Philippines. She mainly writes to forge an intimate connection with her inner being.