Summer, rose, hiding

summer, rose, hiding

Beauty, in the beast's yard

getting closer

she loved someone

too pretty

before the era of 

soul mates

before quitting

coffee and cigarettes

quitting colours

mourning shadows

that she called 

happiness

quitting poems

and roses

quitting Poe, Robert Burns

and Jim Morrison

they laughed

indeed

mourning the sacred moments

mourning the jokes

(July 2016)