**Rose in Autumn**. Poem rhymes :-)

A revenant in a rose Candles lit, Within them: a prose Lighting up to buzz— A tedious list of woes

The wilting flowers look like embers Within their final throes, The pedals fall... No longer pleasant to the nose

Gaunt— is now the stem, Of that-ever withered rose Ever-slowly fallen, as if all of time just froze— On that one day that I remember that decision that I chose..

Golden is the autumn, I dared to you propose— Where amidst the falling leaves You left me there to be.

The violent winds of summer, Passed then like a breeze— As I felt it all was slipping; As I cowered under trees—

Where frozen there in time, Within the sepulcher of autumn—

I stole a single rose...

As winter winds begin to blow And my crime is not forgotten I see a flower wraith, A memory of you—

I see it now, how rotten. The flower stolen from the autumn,

Kept and decomposed.

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