<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=481539" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Rose</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my hand I held the rose<br>As I would a woman dear, <br>Within my fingers I held it tight<br>As I wished it would not disappear.<br>From the touch, sight and beauty that I knew, <br>When the kiss of beauty, once had blew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I held the rose as I would a love<br>As I had held in memory and thought, <br>And then the rose I could not let go<br>For the same as a lover, she became my soul.<br>The stem became the body and the petals became the skin, <br>Then I held her lightly, within the wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rose held me, as I had held her<br>The two of us had become one<br>Then the act of God had prevailed that day<br>For he commanded the wind to take the rose away.<br>And towards the heavens She had flew, <br>As though to join the love that I once had knew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my hand there laid a thorn<br>Though to remind me of the sting of death, <br>So upon the Earth, I then laid the thorn<br>So love of life could again be reborn.<br>I buried the thorn as you would a dream, <br>Knowing never again, will it be seen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Randy L. McClave</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Randy+McClave">Randy McClave</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=481539" data-title="The Rose de Randy McClave" data-description="In my hand I held the rose As I would a woman dear, Within my fingers I held it tight As I wished it would not disappear. From the touch, sight and beauty that I knew, When the kiss of beauty, once had blew. I held the rose as I would a love As..."></div> </div> </div>

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