Oh,
There were roses
And there were thorns
Roxanne liked to think of herself
As both
Bittersweet, she thought
Endearing and lovely,
But yet sharp and blatlantly painful.
When she was asked to describe herself,
She would never say who she was related to
Or where she came from
Because that's not really talking about yourself, is it?
That's talking about others, other people and places
You're connected with.
Roxanne would just simply say 'a rose and a thorn'
Because there would never, ever be anything else
As truthful to what she was
As a rose and a thorn.
Bittersweet.
Just as short as the last one - short and sweet, I suppose. Again, for the Seven Days of Freeverse Challenge, using Roxanne and roses and thorns.