Red like crimson fire
Black like withered hearts grown dire
Velvet, soft to the touch
Brittle, turning to dust in ones clutch
Wild, coursing free
Contained, held for all to see
The eternal symbol of lust
The eternal symbol of death
The cliché of a life time
The lovers’ gift
The widows’ bequest
Written about in masterpieces
Painted in variations
A symbol of peace
Sharp and jagged
A prick brings forth
The crimson liquid
Flowing out, coating the object
Melding with the color, masking the scent
Poison transferred through barriers
Dropping to the floor
Pedals falling
Sway down to the beat of a heart which beats no more
Thorns sticking the ground like a readied arrow
Innocent and perilous it lays waiting
Its next victim
Its next fatality
By any other name it still smells as sweet
Greeting the death you will meat
This flower, this blossom
This Rose

