Be a Rose

Wash tears and fears with a glowing smile
Extend your hands, embrace a face.

(LONDON) - Giving fragrance when caressed

Held up softly, crushed or destroyed

In abundance it fills the ambiance

Never withhold what it contains

Every person you come by

Paths have crossed, wisdom unknown

Don’t let it pass or go to waste

Without a whisper, heart to heart

Spiky shells hide weary souls

Fragile and wounded throbbing in pain

Just like you, carries own load

Seeking retreat, hurting and cold

Wash tears and fears with a glowing smile

Extend your hands, embrace a face

Reassure with a tender gaze

Delight as you leave your scent behind

Brush your surrounds with your heavenly soul

Paint grey days with rainbows hues

lilac and mauve, violet and green

Red and amber, pink and blue

Scatter your pearls for all who seek

Sparkles of joy, boundless sublime

Awaken seeds of love, dormant inside

Watch barren hearts tremble and bloom

Be a rose

“To smile when confronted with the most severe oppression, is an act of Resistance rooted in unparalleled beauty.”

~ Jonathan Azaziah