little rose
night has come home to your room, and so have those red eyes- starry and wakeful. feverish.
you are one of mine. a little fool, a rose of thorns.
hold our word tight, in your flower hands, a word gilded gold and hollow.
watch the wild ones go by in an instant, there and gone.
they can smell your youth and beautiful sanity, all blushing petals and green stems.
stay close to me, baby. so I might revive my spirits. I think I can, now.
so walk on, little rose. take up my limp and my name; put your senses to bed.
and remember that shining word that blooms from every flower you hold:
“fear.”
About this poem
This is a poem that I wrote to my younger self; a younger Gabrielle Rose.
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Written on May 11, 2022
Submitted by gbaker.words on July 11, 2022
Modified on March 08, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 603 |
Words | 124 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
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