Some Flowers Grow Thorns: And Then They Shed Their Petals is a collection of poems about relationships, and the deep connection to the soul that is brought into existence through love and loss, joy and sadness, pain and forgiveness, and all the sentiments in between.

Marissa Eleni Lourake portrays unapologetically, the journey of a young woman, navigating love and relationships in the world, and finding her way by embracing strength and resilience. Here you will find raw emotion that is not sugar coated; from the elation you feel when you first find love, the pain and sorrow when it sometimes goes wrong, to the joy of breaking free and starting over when it ends, and you start to move on, coming back to yourself.