A collection of poetry and will to continue living in an ungratefully unforgiving realm we call earth. A collection of memories through difficult times consisting of survival and experiences of multitudes of different levels. Love, abuse, hate, loss, masculinity, femininity and dysphoria. Cacti and Thorns is a book not made to accomplish anything but to give readers a rabbit hole to fall into and experience a different journey to see the bitter world and to find that there is hope. Maybe not at the same time.