A Rose In Sunlight Poem by Patrick William Kavanagh

A ray of sunlight, glancing briefly through the trees, dazzles a solitary,
ice-white rose,
Surrounded by her sleeping sisters, long before they woke, she has arose.
Scattered on a deep green bush and nestled safely in their buds,
they wait, while she has rushed ahead,
She sheds a single dew-drop tear, for beauty all too soon to fade,
Before the summers comes, her pretty petals will be shed.

Weep not, sister rose,
Your beauty has not passed unseen,
and all too soon, we both are destined to return
to where, deep in our hearts, we've always been
back to that state for which our spirit yearns,
where hunger never bites, or desert burns.

Lincolnshire
16/01/13