Love Poem: Blood Rose

Blood Rose

The sun will shine brighter tomorrow when .  .  . I let go,
        let go, let go-   I have come to your grave my true love;
with a blood red rose in my hands and wet with my tears,
and I weep, oh how I weep this love that has been taken.
             My love, I have been on a journey-   a labyrinth tangled,
I have found in myself courage and strength I did not know I had;
          be proud of me because I have arrived at a place of utter peace,
but, I say farewell love-  for I must now leave this grief behind . . . 


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June 18, 2018


Poetry/Verse/Blood Rose
Copyright Protected, ID 18-1031-943-01
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.


Written for the contest, Poems of Poems
sponsor, Charles Messina

Third Place