🌹Rose Petals Falling🥀

A few days ago, I posted my poem The Crossing on the My Poems section. Today on the Poetry Hub section, I post my friend’s poem. I gave him the same challenge. And gave him the title “Rose” in which he had to construct a poem and submit the next day.

Rose Petals Falling by Yamikani “Karnie” Katunga

20th January 2016

A rose, a girl, well within bloom.

Grown with petals developed from birth.

Not many, far less, but just a few.

But each representing a bit of some worth.

A man, her dad, or rather, father.

A relationship as strong as biology goes.

Absent by choice. Here, not often.

And each time he left with a petal from the rose.

A man, a boy, she went into his arms.

In search for a comfort that she never knows.

Those arms disappear like her father’s they’re gone.

With a few more petals from this withering rose.

Now thorny and wilted without a petal.

All, fallen away and decomposed.

A new spring; new bud, but only little.

A petal appears on a baby rose.

~ Yamikani “Karnie” Katunga

20th January 2016