Porcupine

Prickly, as a Porcupine
Sensitive,
As touch-me-not
A shy step fore
A hasty retreat
Fearing pain
More and More
Who drives you?
An inner strength
Or world's view
Roll yourself
Roll yourself
A ball of spines
Much abhorred
Inside, a you
Soft and subdued
Torn and bleeding
None to view.