Roses

 And so,

here I sit,

caught up in the "could have been" thoughts.

And yet,

I don't want to write another song about roses

because they simply dry up.

Roses are not "could have been" things

because the moment they were cut

in their beautiful state

to be placed in the hands of a lover,

it was known that they would be

and that they could never be.

-Emma Lancaster