Blood For a Rose
All roses need love,
but
some require more.
Crimson
blood, cold sweat,
scared
tears, drug-induced vomit.
All
for the sake to make her yours.
You write for hope;
hope
she will come back.
You
write in faith;
faith
that she still cares about you.
You
write to a ghost.
What
makes her different from the others?
How
she left to find a healing
that
you fail to offer?
How
she threatened you with the friendship
unless
you comply to your greatest angst?
You’re too emotional for her blood,
rich
in love but saturated with sadness.
She
ran away from your crises
and
left you to pick up the shattered pieces.
With
whom does the fault lie?
It is said that vulnerability
leads
to change and creativity.
You
broke down your walls
to
let your rose grow,
but
the thorns choke your heart.
Now she left a void in your brain,
nothing
more than a living memory.
Maybe
you didn’t try enough
to
give her what she needs.
And
so, you’re left to fight on your own.
Will
you find peace
if
your rose busts through the streets?
Will
your happiness thrive with hers?
If
she should return someday,
will
your past stitch itself together?
The tears you hold
will
fall in vain.
The
drops make a hollow sound.
The
pain in your heart leaks out,
and
things will never be the same.
Sophia
Kelly
Sophia
Kelly is an undergraduate student attending the University of Northern
Colorado. She has seven published poems, and awards for two poems in the
Scholastic Art and Writing Competition. Her poems can be found in Haiku Journal, The America Library of Poetry, The
Live Poets' Society of New Jersey, Poetry
Nation, and Soft Cartel Magazine.
Sophia strives to write in many different styles and genres. When she is not
putting her pen to the paper, she crochets a wide variety of animals, where she
then sells at her local artisan shop.
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