Donned my
badass black dress
today
Mourning colors
for a softer
kinder
woman
I think I used to be
she’s fading away
curves lost to angles
all sharp elbows and knees
Thorns create a protective trellis
around the remaining delicate petals
of my peony heart
Invisible barbed quills sprout
from my death white skin
Keep a healthy distance
lest you prick your finger
on my spine
I will greedily drink
the drops of your oxygen rich blood
from my cupped hands
before you fall
© 2017 Christine Elizabeth Ray – All rights Reserved
Brave & Reckless 
Beautiful!
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Thank you Stepehn
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An intense portrait – reminds me of a joke: How do porcupines hug? Very carefully.
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I have been accused of being a little intense before. Sometimes the most sensitive of us need some thorns or quills for protection
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Reblogged this on cabbagesandkings524 and commented:
Christine Ray gives a portrait of a dangerous woman.
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Now I have Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman stuck in my head!
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