Love Poem: Roses
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Written by: Shahana Jackson

Roses

roses are red. 
violets are blue. 
I feel red when im around you and blue when I realize that I cant have you.
 It almost makes me not want to exsist on valentines day. 
its the day choosen to celebrate love. 
its a day meant for wholeness but it makes me feel so incomplete. 
so I close up even more. 
while everyone else is wining and dining and celebrating their love im like I always am.
 sitting on my bed alone.
 sipping cheap wine that burns and taste bitter going down.
 just so I wont remember that this is all my fault.
 I choose to ignore and to stay single because I want something meaningful. 
   Not a just because scenario. 
I reach for the stars and Ive never once looked down 
and thought maybe Im shooting to high. 
except when I think about love which stinks.
ive never even seen a plastic rose. 
I feel insignificant.