A Rose With Thorns

        The seductive blood red rose tripped up your footsteps and direction of gaze. Before allowing your melody box to play its musical all the way through, you accepted the temptation. You fell in love with your sweetheart's perfect imperfections. How far did you go, degrading your standards, to pamper your significant other's desires because you loved him? Your emotions overpowered your rules. He killed your innocence. Every delayed response, broken promise, and 'mistake' deeper deteriorated your hope for a positive future. Negative vibes ran wild with the fear that your lover no longer loved you. Did he ever love you? You'd been chewed up and spit out. The rose left thorns to cut your skin to bleed while he pursued another seducer.
        You're now left with the impossible... to break free the rose's frame in your heart.