Roses: A Rose Says I Love You

A sound sleep,

A sudden awakening,

As if from a dream;

One spoken word,

"Rose."

A plaintiff cry

Resounding,

As if from a far distant horizon;

A lonely man's voice,

Crying out to his love;

Echoing,

Re-echoing his pain,

The word,

Carried on the wings of the spirit;

The winds of his thought

Still blowing

Across the vast waters

Of time's tempest and torment;

A fragile, fleeting dream

Soon dissipating

With the dawn;

A single word,

The picture of a rose,

Forever imprinted

Upon a day's page of life;

Soon etched into memory

And locked into eternity's realm

Love remembered;

Not to be forgotten.

A rose says,

"I love you,

From the bottom of my heart;"

Do not cry

For the eternal rose;

It still lives.

Have you envisioned the eternal rose?