Poetry
I remember long ago
a Fair had came to town.
People talked for many weeks
and came from miles around.
One of several contests -
two roses were compared.
It seems like only yesterday
the way the people stared....
A mass of people circled
'round the roses, stood;
but sitting in my wheel chair,
I couldn't see so good.
One received the highest prize
the other one was tossed;
as people cheered the winner -
ignored the one that lost.
For the one that lost its case -
the judge just cast aside;
then was trampled under feet.
Its owner nearly cried.
The winning rose was held up high -
for all the world to see;
The people crammed around it close,
and oh, they did agree.
Some in back, for a better look
stood high on their tip toes
shuffling for position
still trampling on that rose.
Finally, a little boy
'bout 2 or 3 years old
snatched that dead old flower
and brought to me to hold.
It's stem was crushed so thoroughly
and wasn't very long;
Hardly recognizable -
with most it's petals gone.
I wanted nothing of it -
oh, to view the other rose!
But I sat in my wheel chair.
That's how the story goes.
The boy stood right beside me -
He thought he'd done me good.
He never said a single word,
he just misunderstood.
There on my lap it laid until
I got back to my room.
Then I tossed it in the trash can -
as it could never bloom.
But oh, a few days later,
the County Fair had passed;
when all the excitement dwindled,
when people left at last....
I unburied that dead rose,
and pressed it in a book;
and now when I'm discouraged,
I take another look.
Pressed deep within the pages
at Psalm One-hundred-three;
I often think of that small boy -
the love he showed to me.
The winning rose has long since passed -
gone, its worldly shine.
Though others long for other things,
that trampled rose is mine.
©2008 louis gander (11-18-08) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
http://www.ganderpoems.org/
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Psalm 103 (NASB)
Praise for the LORD'S Mercies.
A Psalm of David.
1"Bless the LORD, O my soul,
And all that is within me, bless His holy name."
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