Can Rotten Eggs Grow Roses?

I feel like I was dead
A long time ago
Like an unborn child
Rotting in the mother’s uterus
Poisoning her organs
Inflicting pain on everything I touch
I feel like that egg
The one rotten inside
But shaped and shelled
From the outer walls
Every night I go to sleep
Wondering if my insides smell like that
Like those rotten eggs that choked me,
The one I had to discard
As soon as I cracked it open.

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