Un-stemmed

To you my greatest love

I send my heart in folded paper

with tear-smudged ink and aching pains

in all but words we are apart

 my heart withering like a dying rose

immersed in fear

torturing pain prolonging each day

my spirit and I, we just lie in wait

your voice I miss

as I weep my grief; I can taste the salt of my tears

and with each passing day

I grow weaker with dismay

from my memory

as you my love, do fade

I’ve lost your vision and feel so afraid

invisible rope

tugging at my every tomorrow

 even the birds weep with sorrow

your soul was my blanket

now I’m alone

don’t leave my heart condemned

your love that has been brutally seized

and I?

I’m a dying Rose

left to die un-stemmed.