MY ROSE YOU ARE!
At times in my life when I'm all alone......
no t.v., no radio, not even a phone.....
completely shutout is the world all around.....
my tears and my sobs the only sights and sounds...
So I'd go for a walk, at least when I could......
too search for whatever just something that's good.....
something so joyous that no one can frown......
and that's when I saw it, when I looked down.

Even in winter through all of the snow......
a single red rose, how it seemed to glow.....
and as I stared at it, that's when I noticed a change.......
that my heart now felt warm, as if heated by flame.....
and my tears now stopped flowing and staining my cheeks.....
as had been the case for the past few weeks......
in that instant I knew, why this rose had appeared.....
and it wasn't to make all the sadness disappear........

It was to let me know that when my life seems hard......
whether broken down spirit or flesh covered by scar.....
when the world seems to difficult for life to go on......
in my heart I now hear the most beautiful song......
so instead of picking this rose from the ground......
I left it for someone who might also be down.....
and in my heart cherish what I know is now true.....
that the rose in the winter...well, it was you!