THE ROSE - Edgar Allan Poe

"Some say love, it is a river

that drowns the tender reed

Some say love, it is a razor

that leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love, it is a hunger

an endless, aching need

I say love, it is a flower

and you its only seed.

It's the heart afraid of breaking

that never learns to dance

And the dream afraid of waking

that never takes the chance

It's the one who won't be taken

who cannot seem to give

And the soul afraid of dying

that never learns to live.

When the night has been too lonely

and the road has been too long

And you think that love is only

for the lucky and the strong

Just remember in the winter

far beneath the bitter snows

lies the seed when with

the sun's love in the

spring becomes the rose."