Summer Roses

We were drunk on summer love and high from heat,

Two kids against the world on a solidified team.

You pulled me into something so deep that I drowned.

I look back and maybe I could regret this now.

Your love became soft as thorns until I bled

Just a white rose stained out of innocence.

I've moved forward into a different world since.

I'm what you have made me, hardened from your pretense.

Did you ever think I'd become like this?

I've come so far. The mirror shows another reflection

that you couldn’t even recognize.

This rose froze into a different disguise.

Look at me now living the life you never thought.

Look at me now an innocent lost.

Don’t worry though, I’ve found another.

He’ll never know the real me you uncovered.

I hang on tight just so he won’t let go

In fear of the hurt and pain of an ending blow.

But this is nice and kind and caring, adored.

Every time I think of our time I hold tight just a little more.

We have to know we can never repeat the past.

Summer fades and roses never last.

I’m holding onto him and it’s so pretty,

Nothing’s ever beautiful anymore in pity.

The reflection shines a new outlook through.

We harden our ways as days show truth.

Thank you for this tainted rose.

Thank you for the new world I know.

There’s so much left unsaid and unforgiven.

I’ll never know all in your mind you’ve hidden.

It was beautiful but time doesn’t regress.

I’m holding it, hoping you don’t forget.