MY LOVE - MY ROSE (Oct 2002)

Flecks of mud stick to my soles
As i walked through
The rough pathways
On the green filled meadows
Lush with grass and bush
With tiny flowers yellow and blue
Cattle grazing the soft grass
Driving grasshoppers and insects amuck
And the chill air of the evening
Nearly made me feel at Paradise.

* * *

As I entered the woods
The chirps and pecks of birds was filling the air
As I neared the small clearance
My heart began to pump hard(Why?)
Day i saw her I fell in love
As a proposal i had sent a dove
Symbol of my love was a red-rose
I planted in this clearance I made
I spoke to it with love in heart
I kissed it with love in heart
I loved it with love in heart
As i would have done to her
I felt she is the rose
Red and beautiful wanting my embrace
I sat beside her and said
How I missed her this noon
I couldn't bear.
But it didn't seem interested
And remained silent.
This nature of her i have not seen
Warned me something wrong.
She dances in the air ,sending me
A gust of fragrance that I feel she laughs
But today she kept quiet(Why?)

* * *

I sat beside her with worry
Then my dove returned
She landed beside me
Away from the rose
And stuck her leg out to give the reply
I turned to it and took it
I prayed as i uncoiled it, for a hopeful reply
The reply was short in a scribble
"For dust on cartwheels to love,
I am not the mud on the streets"
Just a single line.

Denials bring worries
But insults bring wounds
With shearing pain in my heart, I couldn't bear
To quench my anger and pain
I turned to the rose to scold her
But what I saw made me shatter
I fell at the feet of her and started to cry
There my rose was hanging its head slowly down
With its petals turning black...