I’ve been given roses

From someone who loved me

Someone I couldn’t love back

Yet I smiled and took them home

 

I filled the flower vase with water

And homed these roses so well

Placed them somewhere

The sun will reach

 

When the mornings came

I touched their delicate petals

Smelt and kissed them softly

Remembered that someone’s face

Until the tiny bits of love took me in.