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 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 that with the sun's love
in the spring becomes the rose.