The boy, <br />Was born to no one. <br />He was found by a caring man. <br />A gardener's son he was to be, <br /> <br />And so he was reared and taught and loved. <br />All was well with the world and life, <br />But one day he found in a bed of red roses. <br />His fathers body cold on the soil. <br /> <br />Tears glistened down his eyes, <br />Like dew on a fresh flower in the morning. <br />He wept and wept, <br />Yet he knew his father would never return. <br /> <br />So with a shovel he dug a grave fit for the one, <br />That showed him life, laughter, and love. <br />So he buried his father and put a rose on the mound. <br />Remembering the man, his father, <br /> <br />And so he was set to be just like him, <br />To garden and grow flowers and herbs alike. <br />As best as his father had taught him, <br />For his father, he would live. <br /> <br />The years grew on, <br />And his knowledge grew as well. <br />He could grow anything at anytime in any place, <br />A master he was a the botanist's trade. <br /> <br />Yet, there was one thing he could never make live. <br />No matter how hard his efforts. <br />He could never once get crimson rose to survive. <br /> <br />So one day he went into an open field, <br />To watch the roses grow. <br />He sat and waited for the roses to bloom. <br />While he waited, he thought of his father. <br /> <br />Suddenly a thought struck him. <br />Why was it his father was dead in the roses? <br />Only he had questioned it to late, <br />For the wind rose up and the pollen spread. <br /> <br />These were no normal roses, <br />Their pollen caused any living thing to die. <br />Not only to protect the roses, <br />But to make the soil fertile as well. <br /> <br />He inhaled and slowly dropped to the ground, <br />And there he lay in the roses. <br />The wind again picked up, <br />And blew around the petals, <br />Covering him where he lay. <br />Dead but, at peace, like his father.<br /><br />Peter Vector<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-boy-and-the-crimson-roses/
