Before the Roses Fall Apart
Your are as the breeze that
sends me the scent of lilac.
Oh how is it that scent
sends chills up and down my back?
Is this all from within
setting there lying low?
Of this craving
never have I known.
Answers to it's source
I do not have.
Where it shall lead
will it be happy or sad?
What you think
of this, I cannot concieve.
Of my open thoughts
how will you recieve?
I have searched
for what will not be.
I have chased that which
I shall never in my life see.
Always avoiding
the proverbial broken heart.
Picking up the roses
before they fall apart
Forever to have them
day after day.
Listening to all the words
they have to say.
Shanan M Birtcher 8/20/97