Withered Rose







Petal Drop/ withered rose



I am a withered rose
Dying as each red petal falls
into earth and becomes no more

once a seed that blossomed into

the red rose of everyone’s desire

they looked, stared in amazement

adored my beauty and elegance.

but each night my red petals

begin to turn black and fall

as I let each one of them pull

me off my stem and rub me

in their arms by letting them

slide between my thighs

my ever sweet wet thighs

night after night we exchange

more than body lubricant,

more than sweat, we exchange

our souls, our spirits, our stories and

I let them take every bit of innocence

Left in me,  I let them take my precious

Treasure and before the sun rises they leave

Leave me in my own pity, my sadness

Leave me with memories of when

He used to come to me late at nights

Until he decided I was grown enough

To be ripped off my virtue

And he forced his way into me

And I cried and cried cause I knew

I had begun to wither

My first petal drop was by my father

And many led after that  

I am a withered rose
Dying as each red petal falls
 into earth and becomes no more







for every girl, lady, woman, daughter, sister, wife, aunt, grandmother who has been raped 
              
                                                  the lovepoet

POEM OF THE DAY

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
       THE SECOND COMING
    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.
    Surely some revelation is at hand;
    Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
    The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
    When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
    Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
    A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
    A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
    Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
    Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
    The darkness drops again but now I know
    That twenty centuries of stony sleep
    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?