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This is the section of Strive4Impact.com, where you can read, every day, something I wrote since I was 13 years old (1993).  Some of it's adolescent angst, but some of it is quite good, and I hope you'll agree.  What are we up to now? Currently, my wife and I are traveling the world and blogging our experience.  We may have been somewhere you would like to go, or maybe we could come to meet you?  Either way, you may find our reviews and advice helpful.  Check it out at http://www.CarrieAndJonathan.com

 

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WHERE'S THE ROSE NOW? IS IT STILL THERE?

April 12, 1994
(Jonathan is 14, and still heartbroken over a girl named Jackie who he met at World Youth Day in Summer 1993)

WHERE'S THE ROSE NOW?
IS IT STILL THERE?
IF IT IS
WHERE CAN I FIND IT, WHERE?

DEEP INSIDE,
I KNOW IT'S BEEN FROZEN
IT JUST SITS THERE
LEFT UNCHOSEN
WITH ONE DELICATE TOUCH,
IT COULD CRACK
IT MIGHT SHATTER
WITH A SIMPLE STEP BACK

I'm too scared to move
so I sit at a standstill
staring at the Rose, I wonder
why is it I don't feel a chill?
The sun is shining,
but the roses shaded
by a cloud
its colors faded.

Rose, please,
feel the shining sun
you will see
a wonderful relationship has begun

Posted by on November 16, 2009 6:50 PM |



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