Leather-bound Love Stories, by a Hopeless Romantic

Rose Thorn

Rose Thorn, meet open

Heart: broken Skin on scarred Wrists

bleeding red Petals.

Rose Thorn, love suture

Art: forlorn Scribbles sown by

all your Betrayals.

(Rose Thorn,)

A Heart can’t beat without —

(Rose Thorn,)

My Heart won’t beat without

Reason.

Give me Reason;

I choose Life.

Rose Thorn, steal every

Breath: tickling Reminders of

Things for regretting.

Rose Thorn, promise for

Death: careful Insurance we

can’t start forgetting. 

(Rose Thorn,)

A Heart can’t beat without —

(Rose Thorn,)

My Heart won’t beat without

You.

Give me You;

I choose Life.