Life Is Not A Bed Of Roses Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Life Is Not A Bed Of Roses



Knowing you would be
coming back to my place
I bestrewed our bed
with red

rose
petals
dozens & dozens of roses
petal upon petal until

it appeared
like something out of a fairy tale.

***

That night we broke up
& I couldn't sleep
(slept on the floor
all week)

only changing the sheets
when the roses didn't smell like roses
no more.

Dónall Dempsey
Thursday, June 14, 2007
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Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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