Barely opened

Exposing

Allowing sweet scent to spill out

Spreading

Hinting

A gentleness

Laying

Drooping in the garden

Surrounded by bright life

Sweet green

Blues and yellows

True color

With your deep red

Mocking

Defying red

Tempting

Almost

Luring

Almost

Hinting

To what it can do

Warning

With its armor

Protecting its innocence

A sea of hurt waiting

To stab those who harm it

To thrust its only weapon

Thorns to rip through