See this rose and remember our love
Bestowing calm like a heavenly dove
Its redness passion, our love ever true
Yet times it fades, our love doth too

See this rose and do not cry
It's death a way to remind you and I
For its death brings life unto another
Love faded, now stronger within each other

See this rose and smile with joy
Let not its ending so bitterly destroy
But embrace its beginning; beautiful and soft
An aroma of sweet hope floating aloft

See this rose and cast it away
An ending met, no life to convey
Please let it go and look onto me
Our love, another rose, I give to thee
©S.I.B. September 22, 2007