Please, <br />Do not remove the thorns from that rose. <br />I wish to experience every bit of it. <br />If I can not handle it and it should prick, <br />Let me be the obe to adjust to it. <br />I want to know what it is as it is. <br />Not what you wish me to believe, <br />To leave me to discover... <br />You decided to have me, <br />Think of it as something else. <br /> <br />Please, <br />Do not remove the thorns from that rose. <br />I've chosen it just the way it is... <br />Thorns and all. <br />I will never appreciate it, <br />If you make the decision... <br />To keep me from getting pricked. <br />If that is to be my experience... <br />Let it be.<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-that-is-to-be-my-experience/
