Should have stayed home

While I wished for an eve of smiles and warmth I was instead greeted with a cold breeze that seemed to peel my sparkly skin clean away.  Naked and unprotected, the thorns that would normally fall weakly at my sides suddenly find my most tender of points and create tears that were never meant to exist.  It is dangerous and weak to allow such vulnerability, but impossible to avoid if trust is allowed to exist.  Better to have avoided the hurt and buried myself in imaginary embraces.