VISUAL PROMPT
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Create a story or poem with the theme of 'Dead Roses'.
Sweet
Pink rose lying
in a wheel barrel of change,
no angel is there
for a dying child;
happy you lived,
unknowing you died
with no memorial reason,
cut for fading
to make room for more;
let me not cut hope for fading
or blame it for not
being alive now.
Red rose lying
at the feet of hope,
like a terminal child
cut from the root
of self sustaining life,
it is your place to die
beautifully without a tear
by an angel statue
meant to stand with wings
that touch the sun,
unbowed and never cut
but not yet alive like you were.
Let me see beauty
until I can reconcile the loss.
Even a dead rose holds itself.
One day the living will meet
the sun with wings to fly
past all doubt into a cure.
Too late for who I know now,
so I cry among the flowers
that, alive or dead, smell sweet.