A Slam to Everything

"Roses"

I love how much a rose can symbolize

How the thorn will prick your skin

Reminding you that Pretty things can hurt too

I love how a rose can symbolize Life

Then death

How all life spreads to nothing

No roots

No stem

Just ashes 

And Dust

A rose can draw blood

It can draw you in with a

Fresh scent

And the fresh look of scarlet

Beauty is a killer

Like a rose in hiding

A rose can be 

life, love, lust

Even death itself

A rose can be closed

Then open up like a person

It goes to show that people

Have secrets themselves

They have thorns to cover up

or hide 

To keep unwanted hands from

Prying them open

or apart

To see something ugly

All roses die

and live for a period of time

I find it intriguing

As I watched seven or more roses all live

Then rot away at the same time

Just over a couple of weeks

When something so beautiful 

Could even rot when its constant source is sunlight

I love how a rose can symbolize a person

How it can show a good and hidden bad

I love how a rose can symbolize life 

how a rose can show

That no matter how beautiful

Or how ugly

All things die