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Desert Women.

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Desert women know
about survival.

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Fierce heat and cold have
burned and thickened our skin.

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Like cactus we've
learned to horde.

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To sprout quick roots.

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To seem asleep, yet wake at the
scent of softness in the air.

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To hide pain and
loss by silence.

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No branches wail or
whisper our sad songs,

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safe behind our thorns.

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Don't be deceived.

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When we bloom, we stun.

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