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Create a story or poem with the theme of 'Dead Roses'.
Rejection Rose
Roses
Rows and rows of roses
Rotting roses composing in the compost
Disclosing a secret no one else knows
Each red rose shows love that grows and then slows
As thorns cut the woes of wounds weeping and bleeding red onto petals
Infesting bugs medle, ripping, shredding, ending life
The heart's chords strike with strife
Each string cut like each snipped flower
Given weakly and meekly to the prouder
Dead in head but not in heart
Petals may wilt but the bush is backyard
Trimmed with silver lining
Showing off the pretty red color
Real red, bloody red
Bloody red?
Like a shot to the heart, a spot gushing sorrow
And we all know the hole is beginning to hollow, so swallow your tears
And offer her another rose
Here goes, suppose
She crushed it on the sidewalk and squawked with laughter
Whatever, it doesn't matter, some say I'm an actor
because I'm great at hiding how I really feel
But what I really feel is pain
And the hope in my heart wilts
and it's as dead as the rose