MCBROOM, Amanda
    
      
    
      
    
      
    The Rose
    
      
    
      
    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, it's only seed
    
      
    
      
    It's the heart afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance
    
      
    It's 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 snow
    
      
    Lies the seed, that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose