Tears of a Rose

Share with me
Let me believe
With my secrets
You will not leave.
Let me trust
In what you give;
Don’t allow this to become a mistake
With which I must live.
Hold my confidences
As near as your own:
Neatly to your heart
Carefully stitched and sewn.
So many times before
My trust has been abused-
With every betrayal
Some faith I seem to lose.
I hate my suspicions-
Laden with such mistrust;
I hope for such afriendship
To blossom between us.
Gently and with tenderness
Tread with my care,
And mayhaps with time
Oh, such that we may share!


Inspired by a beautiful woman with a golden heart...who treads with far too many tears and far too much trepidation due to a heart worn fragile by betrayal.