“But I do, and the barbed wire tightens once more, until my heart is strangled and broken.”
“And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.”
“Police officers put up barbed wire around their hearts to protect them.”
“This is my barbed wire dress. It protects the property but doesn't hide the view.”
“How could I remain unyielding? His words penetrated the flimsy barriers I’d set up around my heart. I’d meant to set up a barbed wire fence, but the barbs ended up being covered with marshmallows. He slipped through my defenses easily. He touched his forehead to my hand, and my marshmallow heart melted.”
“Blue sky beyond barbed wire I wish I were sky.”