The Rose

By Matthew Wilke

The girl I love

Doesn’t know that I love her

So I sent her a rose last night

I didn’t tell her my name

So of course she didn’t know

That I sent her a rose last night

I heard her tell

Her friends of the beauty

Of the rose that she got last night

I feel I should tell her

That it was I who sent her

The rose that she got last night

For my heart bleeds

Blood as red as the rose

That I sent her last night

I told her it was I

Who sent her that flower:

The rose that she got last night

She threw her arms

Around me and thanked me

For the rose I gave her last night