Inside the Rose
Go inside a rose.
Fall into the velvet blanket of memories.
Let someone else fall onto the thorn.
Or down the stem of truth.
I am happy where I lay.
From the outside a ray of perfection.
No one knows the secrets within.
I wither from the core of love.
Even though I seem to share beauty.
Even though a dozen dies in a day.
The rose stands frozen.
Sleek and slender.
A snob to the daisy below.
Where the rose has arms of envy.
A seed could only dream.
I have seen the glisten of morning's dew.
The stem broken, and cut with a blade.
So perhaps I'm not so enchanting as you think.
The petals of life, pulled from their breath.
And wilted away like never there in the first place.
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Submitted on September 16, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABCDEFGHIEFJKILMNOPQ |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 658 |
Words | 133 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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