Her Name Was Rose
Dew kissed petals and
Rosy sepal bed,
Adornments and grand
Proportions of red.
Velvet are the veins
Teeming, lush with life
Soothing the remains
Of thirst and parched strife.
Aromatic myrrh:
It escapes and slips
Imbibe the nectar,
Let it wet your lips.
Go taste the ocean
In the droplet falling:
Unkempt emotion.
Your rose is calling.
Climbing the trellis,
Vigorous and spiked,
The thorns will relish
In their hidden strike.
The rain elevates
The forbidden pearl.
In beauty she bates
Covering her churl.
Steam evaporates
Drying her dark eyes.
Too cloudy for fate,
Obscured by her cries.
Go taste the ocean
In the droplet falling:
Unkempt emotion.
Your rose is calling.
The jewel is walled in
Under lock and key.
Enclosed safe within
Loath to be free.
Fear of the briars,
The coppery scent
Their sting like fire,
The promised torment.
Unachievable:
They deem it a dream.
Irretrievable.
Her worth, too extreme.
Go taste the ocean
In the droplet falling:
Unkempt emotion.
Your rose is calling.
Knight and defender
Atop a swift steed,
With a coat of white.
His flower to free.
She can’t dull the thorns
She was born this way.
Her lovers’ flesh torn
So badly none stay.
The darkness descends.
The clouds choke the stars.
Will agony end?
She casts her gaze far.
Go taste the ocean
In the droplet falling:
Unkempt emotion.
Your rose is calling.
Deafening silence
Screaming and lonely.
Drowning in violence
Crying if only.
Liquid in motion,
Screaming and calling:
She lost devotion.
Debased and crawling.
She’ll kiss the cold ground,
Revel in the dirt.
She think it profound:
Ogling eyes avert.
Go taste the ocean
In the droplet falling:
Unkempt emotion.
Your rose is calling.
Save her, save her, please.
Sharper than her thorns,
She wields it with ease.
She won’t have to mourn.
Roses bleed like you.
Boiling, red and thick,
She smiles and laughs. Who
Cares? The tile’s slick.
What a silver tool,
What a scarlet stain.
Unforgiving. Cruel.
It’s over: the pain.
Can't taste the ocean
In the droplet falling:
Unkempt emotion.
Your rose was calling.