cantaparaunarosa
Ballad for a Rose
by felvz
I came upon a fine garden one day.
I walked inside to see if there’s a place to stay
just to spend time and kill some idle moments.
I was lucky
there was space for me.
I looked around for wonderful things to see.
I walked amidst the bushes, trees, and shrubs,
then I came upon this magnificent rose.
Hw red and dazzling it was.
It greeted me with a fervent smile
with its beaming, blooming, red petals.
I couldn’t help but smile back.
The flower left me in awe…
it was pretty beyond all that I saw.
I said to myself
“Oh how i would like to take you home…
nothing else in this garden
but you alone…
put you in a vase
and call you my own.”
I stared, and stared, and stared
as I sat before the rose.
But time flies.
Andd like lightning it goes.
I soon had to leave the garden
for i’m needed somewhere else.
“You’d still be here tomorrow, I suppose.
I’ll be back ‘til then to watch you pose…
goodbye for now my lovely rose.”
The flower since then I could never forget.
It haunted me throughout the night.
I couldn’t wait to go back to the garden
and behold of its comely sight…
And so the sleepless night passed,
my waiting finally ended.
Sunbeams signaled a new day,
thoughts all suspended.
I arose from my bed.
I fixed myself and went ahead
to the garden so green
where the radiant rose I have seen.
I entered.
I hurried to the place,
to that little spot
where the rose with all its grace
bewildered my puny little heart.
I found it.
There it was.
It gleamed gloriously as ever.
Right then I knew I would forget it never.
I stared, and stared, and stared
as i sat before the rose.
Oh how I wished and prayed
that nobody else knows
of the little beauty I found in the garden.
For losing my lovely rose
I would not want to happen.
And I thought to myself
“I have to take it home,
nothing else in the garden but it alone,
put it in a vase and call it my own.”
I was about to pluck the beauty
to take it home with me.
But I paused
when from nowhere came a bee.
Oh how the rose glowed with joy
when the bee it did see.
The bee hovered,
danced, and shuffled
over the rose.
And the lovely flower watched in delight
as the bee fluttered with all its might.
It landed upon the blossom’s face
as if giving it a warm, tender embrace.
It smothered my rose with kisses
as if the flower it really misses
so much…
A tear rolled down my cheek
I felt suddenly meek,
hushed by the scene.
It was something I knew not
or something I just forgot
to consider
My heart went asunder.
the rose and the bee…
they belong together.
