My love is like a scarlet rose, <br />It buds, <br />It blooms, <br />Then fades and goes, <br />Its petals fall <br />Unto the floor, <br />For love that shone <br />And yet no more. <br /> <br />They wither brown as time goes past <br />For all <br />That's good <br />Can never last, <br />Each day I wake I can but yearn <br />For love <br />That's lost <br />And won't return. <br /> <br />Those petals rest in silence there, <br />Like tears, <br />Of grief, <br />And deep despair, <br />Then on the wind <br />Away they fly, <br />To bid farewell, <br />A last goodbye.<br /><br />ANDREW BLAKEMORE<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-love-is-like-a-scarlet-rose/
