ROSE
noun

A flower, often with a pleasant smell, which grows on a bush with stems that have sharp points called thorns on them.

A pink wine made from certain red-wine grapes, with the skins left in the juice during early fermentation just long enough to tinge it with color.

A feminine name.

Each of the above has the power to intoxicate you, posses you, enchant you.

Each should be treated with respect and love.

If abused and pushed far enough – each will kill you. The first brings a death by thousand pricks, the second an internal decay and devastation of the flesh, the third one a broken heart that will never heal…