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MY LONG LOST ROSE

Amidst my flower garden blooming
There stands a single rose
The most beautiful of flowers
How it got there no one knows

Its radiance sweeps you off your feet
As you view it with sheer admiration
And as the seasons turn to frost
It begins to feel a strange sensation

Finally when the earth has hardened
It begins to lose that grand array
For it senses something missing
And its withering blossoms fade away

All throughout the winter season
It replenishes a quality oh so rare
Where some just never make it
Because it’s as if they didn’t care

Comes the spring when all is warm
It always seems to re-appear
There must be something special
That makes it grow year after year

The barren spots around it must be filled
Many are planted but only one grows
And whenever that flowers start to blossom
I know that I will see my long lost rose