Red,

If the rain only knew

Had only felt

One vein upon your hand

One hour in your eyes

It’d see no need to fall

Or cry

To sour and then dry

To live or need or die

To ever say it’s time

.

So now the air is wet

Like a star

On a pond

Lone dew drop on a lawn

The last note in the song

I hear now you are gone

.

But I can feel you yet

Only here

In my head

Like fire to warm the dead

The life that I once bled

My love,

My rose,

Dear Red.