A Rose

A Poem by k.

just to get me started here.

I don’t wanna be sorry
For living, breathing, eating;
I wanna smile without worrying
To feel good and not have to hide ~me~

I’d love to run away
New world, new life, new face
But pain’s not so easy to escape
When your heart’s stuck in the bad place

Everyone hates to be alone
But I can’t do what I’m told,
Toxicity is hard to let go
Because it’s all I’ve known.

I don’t know who this person is,
The one in my mirror’s reflection.
Truth is, there’s no difference
Between her and the monster I’d “once been”

I don’t even wanna be me
So I disguise; a rose, maybe
Delicate; beautiful; strong, you see
The fallen petals become the free!

When I talk, do you hear any happy?
Is it possible for a long-lost soul to break free?
Are my dreams or flight out of reach?
I want to be able to be... To be.

Come so I’ll be safe
Because my hand is yours to take.
My heart won’t care if it breaks
There’s no more mess to make

Pretend to be in love
I promise it ain’t so tough!
Fragile hearts rise above
A world, ground, path too rough

We’ll make it out alive
If you swear to be mine..
Only together can we thrive
No dream lives without more time

So save me, baby, let me breathe
My lungs lost hold beneath the sea
Of darkness that’d smothered me;
Send me to Serenity.

I won’t give up if you can stay,
Give me just another day
With you, so we can run away
Here, all colors have turned gray...

Our final day, the last place I go
Home where that white light glows
You learn that peace is all I’ll know
When I lay under a single rose.