A Single Rose

 A Single Rose (for winter)

For you, my love, I’ll be a single rose

of crimson hue and velvet to the touch.

So warm in contrast to your fallen snows,

yet yearning for the thrill of winter's clutch.

 

Soft petals form a heart so firm and true,

 unyielding to the tempest of your reign,

and though a cold wind nurtures doubt in you,

such purity of love I could not feign.

 

Dilemmas of the soul so keenly felt.

Bestow my love? or must it stay a dream?

for if I warmed your heart 'twould surely melt

and I would lose you to the flowing stream.

 

And so, my love, this single rose I’ll hide

and keep the love I feel for you inside.

by bluemoon (Viewed 2488 times)