If I don't buy you roses

re-posted.

If I don't buy you roses 

Don't bother asking why

Their life spans but a moment

Compared to you and I.

Their petal's scented pleasures

May soothe a troubled soul

Yet what you've done for me love

so few have ever known.

Through years if you desire

Bouquets to see and touch

In simple ways I need you

To want me just as much.

But if by chance it happens

I fail to wake one day

look for me where roses bloom

on earth or far away.

Author's Note

For Valentine's day.

Reviews

[barleygirl]

Maybe I'm too jaded . . . maybe I read too many Valentine sentiments from men who chafe at the standard romantic expectations . . . but I do not feel this as a lovey-dovey poem at all. This feels a little stinging, in a gentle, carefully-stated way. This line seems to be at the crux of every man who resents all the Valentines BS: "In simple ways I need you to want me just as much." (LOVE this line!) And to be honest, I do not like the way women have presented our gender, as far as expectations without so much appreciation! Slap us around, baby, we deserve it (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Relic]

Thanks for the review, Margie. Yeah, I can understand your sentiments. I wrote this from an old fashioned point of view. Perhaps, naively in a way. But here it is.

[Gee]

A joy to read Relic...nuff said :))
Hope you are well.

[Relic]

Thank you, Gee. I am. Hope you are too. :)

[Gee]

All good here thanks

[¿]

Real roses' bouquet as a gift is like perishing lives for entertaining a life.
I won't ever want that.
You just won many hearts with the last stanza. When one's away, find his/her love in things that he/she valued like none other did.
Truly profound read Sir! Be blessed!

[Relic]

Thanks very much, Tahsin. :)

[¿]

Whelcoume! :D

[Patricia Wedel]

If you fail to buy me Roses... I will sing for you...
Roses are red, my love, violets are blue...
I will look for you under the Winter Moon...
where snow blossoms become Crocus.
Seriously, your poem encompasses your
longing of soft notes where the month of June
will find you sorting out the beautiful Towne
where everyone is listening to our favorite
songs of Love. "Let me call you Sweetheart"
is one that comes to mind. truly, Pat

[Relic]

Thanks very much, Patricia. The good old summertime songs are always appealing.

[Patricia Wedel]

Relic ... your last verse is so beautiful... it takes my breath away. truly, Pat

[Relic]

You're very kind, Pat. Thank you.

[Fran Marie]

What a lovely declaration
of love and affection..
for that special someone
on Valentine day.
.you say it well...
with sweet poetic verse

[Relic]

Thank you, Fran. :)

[Chris Shaw]

Very nice sentiment in this romantic Valentine's poem. The life of a rose is fleeting before it wilts and dies, but this relationship is forever. Lovely classical write Tim. Quatrains and alternate end rhyme. Well executed.

Chris

[Relic]

My thanks, Chris. :)

[Arpita Mondal]

God this is such an emotional poem yet so beautiful. I don't have words to describe how amazing it is. Lovely. Great work. :)

[Relic]

I appreciate your thoughts and visit, Arpita. Thanks.