Rose

A color that can’t be seen through tinted lenses—

not really anyway,

it’s a color that must be felt through the heart

a color that burns

on a slow simmer as your soul comes to know

that another has

chosen you to be enamored, to be adored, to be

the one they

can’t stop thinking about even though life hands them

a million and one

other things to do and think about, but before, during, and

after all of it,

their mind, their heart still come home to you for the love

you share.