Why even bother with the responsibility
of a red rose?
If you keep them in water,
they will eventually whither and die.
Drying them only steals their life away.
Add these to you collection of lifeless times;
they easily crumble if dealt with too harshly.
You just can’t win…
red roses are whores,
false words read from a script,
things that only die in time
or lose moisture if kept too still.
(Preservation is for the paranoid)
So go ahead and commit to a rose.
You, too, will someday die.