A Single Red Rose

A single red rose you would bring to me,

Its significance was always very clear to see.

A single red rose, for a single love,

A love over the years we both grew to be so proud of.

Music and moments only we could share,

The love I had longed for long ago filled by my prayer.

Of a man who would hold me and love me forever,

Always beside me no matter the weather.

Through the good times and bad times to always be there,

No love like ours, there would be none to compare.

No one would ever come between us or tear us apart,

This was true love right from the start.

When you came along this dream of mine,

You brought with you a love I had always hoped to find.

Every Friday on payday when you came home to me,

In your hand another single red rose for me to see.

Over the years those lovely visions still come to my mind,

Of our two hearts now together forever entwined.

Sealed by a single red rose brought by my true love,

A love sent long ago to me from heaven above.

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With lots of Love... always,

Mama twins...

If You Forget Me

I want you to know one thing.

You know how this is: if I look

at the crystal moon, at the red branch

of the slow autumn at my window,

if I touch

near the fire

the impalpable ash

or the wrinkled body of the log,

everything carries me to you,

as if everything that exists,

aromas, light, metals,

were little boats

that sail

toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,

if little by little you stop loving me

I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly

you forget me

do not look for me,

for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,

the wind of banners

that passes through my life,

and you decide

to leave me at the shore

of the heart where I have roots,

remember

that on that day,

at that hour,

I shall lift my arms

and my roots will set off

to seek another land.

But

if each day,

each hour,

you feel that you are destined for me

with implacable sweetness,

if each day a flower

climbs up to your lips to seek me,

ah my love, ah my own,

in me all that fire is repeated,

in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,

my love feeds on your love, beloved,

and as long as you live it will be in your arms

without leaving mine.

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With lots of Love... always,

mama twins...