Paper Rose

By Billy Rock Mitchell

I loved you and you were beautiful

You were like a finely crafted paper rose

Real but unreal at the same time

To hold you and to be in your unbelievable presence was a joy

But with the great love there came the great anxiety of a clumsy boy

For paper is torn easily without much effort

As clumsy boys do without thought I upset you

The paper rose was torn

I tried all I could to mend what I had done

But the sticky tape and glue was not enough to fix my mistakes fully

You perceived it as just another attack from a brutish boy bully 

As the wind carried you my rose away

The stem of card revealed it's thorns that cut my hands deep

You didn't understand as I was left in a pit of sand to cry and weep

But I will always remember you as you were

Beautiful and unreal

And who knows 

Maybe I will see you again

My paper rose

By Billy Rock Mitchell