Reprinted with permission from Brunswick County Early College High School’s The Firebird Times.
Red and thorny yet so delicate
Representing love and etiquette
I can’t seem to keep you alive
You always wilt away and die
Red and gorgeous
You make me so curious
How can something so thorny
Be so beautiful in the morning
Away with summer
I watch you wilt
Oh rose, don’t go
And yet you’ve gone
Until next winter
Until next dawn
Until I see you again
My dear rose
