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The treasure at the heart of the rose
is your own heart's treasure.
Scatter it as the rose does:
your pain becomes hers to measure.
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Scatter it in a song,
or in one great love's desire.
Do not resist the rose
lest you burn in its fire.
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~ Gabriela Mistral
(translated by: Langston Hughes)
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art by Betty Jansma
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