A Rose
 
 
I have gathered the faded flowers
In the dark, pressed between
Pages of memories
I'd left oh so long upon the shelf.
And it has been so long
Since I have dreamed of you,
And the rose is still red,
The rose is still red.
I will love you always,
Is that not what you said
With a gentle kiss, and a gift,
Of a rose so red?
The fragrance still lingers
Upon my lonely bed,
Where I'd strewn the petals,
Of a rose so red.
All the faded flowers
Have long since been dead,
But one, dead rose,
Remained ever so red.
 
 
-by Ahmed Samir