Buy Me Roses - Wilhemina Venable

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You know I can't

I can't live without you

And luckily I don't have to

Because you can't

You can't live without me either

So we both have each other forever.


The way you keep me warm

The way you keep me safe

The way you keep me sane

My safe spot

My home

My precious love

You have shown me how to love everyday
Myself
Others
The world
And you.

So yes, I will buy you roses Wilhemina.
Not because you buy me roses too.
But because you care more than enough and trust me so much that you think I am capable of holding flowers alive.
You see my potential
You see through my walls
Through my pain
Through my many insecurities and worries
And you see a seed of a flower,
a seed to let bloom.
So every week you buy me flowers,
Roses to be exact,
To let me see what you can see:
The potential of holding something so tenderly and beautiful alive.
The potential of caring enough.
The potential of giving love.

I don't have to say "buy me roses, Mina".
You would do it either way to show me how much you love me.

And so I go on and buy you roses too,
to show you what I receive and to give it back.
To be able to express how much you can love too.

And not everyone would understand our ways of saying "I love you and I care"
But that is okay,
They don't have to get our love,
They don't love me like you do, Mina
They don't have to buy me roses.

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