Flower amour by leah stevenson and ellie mccullough

Built myself a wall of prickly thorns
To keep you out
As my defence against the world
Built myself a towering palace
Of glitter and steel
Sitting atop a blizzard of broken dreams
Built myself jagged armour
To shield my fragile heart
To stop a bud from blooming in my chest
Built myself a poem
To protect my healing soul
To express the feelings I thought were gone
Thank you for your petal love
In that, it withered away
Thank you for the twilight walks
Under lost and singing stars
Thank you, most of all
For what you gave to a lost girl
For now I know not to close my castle gates
Before I’ve fixed the rusty hinges.

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