Faded Rose Poem by Paul Reed

You sighed, your splendour going
When inner light from bloom riven,
The moment passed without me knowing
That your best had been given;

The sunshine days all flew
Softening the edges of the light
Gone – the day I gazed at you
The pleasure you gave at Summer’s height;

Now, with raindrops softly clinging
Petals wafered and slowly flaking,
There is still a beauty you are bringing
The sadness of the Autumn’s making;

Lest you think that I do not care
That all I craved is now diminished
Scent exhaled and tossed by the air
Your exquisiteness all finished;

I know that you will return
From below the clammy earth’s umbers
To rise with a passion re-born
To wake from Winter’s slumbers.