Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks May 2015: Equality | Page 5

If you Only Had a Heart
Emer Hayes
A heart is like a flower,
it must be cherished to grow.
How is one to thrive
with petals plucked,
leaving only thorns?
Must the empirical rose
dim the glow of the daisy sun?
Who are you to tell me,
A flower is only a weed?
When all stems from the seed.
Who are you to tell me,
whom I can give mine to?

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