How Arose Can Bring Eternal Life Poem by JAMES ROBERTS

HOW A ROSE CAN BRING ETERNAL LIFE

ELYSIAN

For who are brave of heart
And those that have always been true to their oaths,
Keeping their souls clean and pure,
Never letting their hearts be defiled by the taint
Of evil and injustice,
And barbaric veniality,

They are led by Zeus to the end:
To the palace of Kronos,
Where soothing breezes off the Ocean
Breathe over the Isle of the Blessed:
All around flowers are blazing with a
Dazzling light:
Some springing from the shining trees,
Others nourished by the water from the sea:
With circlets and garlands of Red Roses they
Crown their hands,

The Rose

Rose the symbol of beauty purity and passion
Made for Olympion Zeus by his grateful children
No crown of thorns for the King of the True Gods
Bacchus giving the nectar, Chlorus the crown of petals
Vertumnus the scent and finally the Radiant Aphrodite
Coloured the Red Rose with tears of Her Immortal Blood.

On the shedding of mortal coils

When I die
Cover me in red rose petals
For the boatman will not take the Scent of Dionysius
Nor were Chloris’ petals meant for Dark Hades
And would the DREAD PERSEPHONE
Dare dance on Aphrodities tears
And Pluto himself would find Vertumnus scent to rare
To inhale in His land of dark despair

So off to Elysium I am bound
No burning Hell for me
For I have never abandoned the true Gods
For a mortal who died on Calvary