By Riggs
Date: 26 October 1999

Broken Rose

Is there anything as tragic as a broken rose?
Crushed into the ground,
by some uncaring foot.
Utterly destroyed, broken stem
Unreckongnizable petals...
So lifelike you can almost see the blood.
Dripping painfully onto the cold pavement.
The very image of a thousand dumped romantics.
Anguished lovers
Crying Valentines.
It so resembles my heart...
Right down to the footprint.