The Rose

The Rose

The first rose in all its fragrance laughs

Like the first bird to fly in the sky

Beauty engulfs and enlightens all

Adam surveys the virgin realm

His feet trod unbroken fertile sod

The sun sets for the first time on the radiant earth

Stars that never were now blaze in the velvet night

Now many years later the rose has not lost its beauty

The evils of this universe may scar but cannot kill

Beauty still enlightens all

Stars that have seen all still glow in the that lovely dark void