A Rose Stands alone and withers Away

A Rose Stands alone and withers Away


A single rose with thorny stem
On mother nature's tattered hem
Which no-one cares to steal away
So left to wither and decay

And just one teardrop on the hand
Brushed upon the dusty sand
To be consumed into the earth
As one which has no lasting worth

There stands alone a single tree
No leaf upon it you will see
Beneath it grows no bush or flower
Empty, barren, silent bower

A lonely candle burning bright
Extinguished rudely in the night
Leaving shadows set behind
The shuttered windows in the mind

To tread a path that leads nowhere
None to love, none to care
A battered old grandfather clock
Marking time - tick tock, tick tock

A single petal on the bloom
A single chair, an empty room
A place of silent solitude
A place with loneliness imbued

I see a monolith of stone
A vision of the one - alone
A single rose alone to cry
A single rose alone and withers away

By nutbuster