Rose Petals

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Rose petals fall

Like a lost love

A delicate petal

For each brutal argument


One falls, the flower weakens

Another and another

Drifting down slowly downward

Into the abyss of separation


The rose dies

Withering to brown

But, it may grow anew

The next time love rains down




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