Where is the Rose?

Reality shatters
Darkness and light scatter
Broken heart
Moments depart
A dreamer's eyes
Hope dies
Love waits
Fate
Faraway smiles
through trials
Yesterday lingers
in pictures
Left behind
to find
today grows old
past is cold
tomorrow unfolds
a melody plays
Friendship's gaze
an endless search
an empty church
Grace finds
gives sight to the blind
Unspoken words burn
Fires dance as souls yearn
Laughter rings
Thunder sings
Where is the rose?
Lines that poets compose
Blood stains on blue
I love you

By Shannon McKemie, M.A.
Originally written: 01-19-1993 Rewritten: 02-24-2017