Floral Collection

Petals of Nostalgia

 

The roses you planted many moons ago

The roses that saw your children grow

Still so fragrant beautiful and sweet

They still give you lots of joy

They make your heart leap.

Beautiful rose

Petals yellow like gold

Your beauty is something to behold

When your fragrance reaches me

It awakens a childhood memory

Small little hands

A garden full of laughter

Mud pies and cakes

Beautifully red roses

To blossom after. 


Now the years have passed by

The little hands not so little anymore

Wrinkly hands and a life lived

Sitting there under the rays of the sun

With my beautiful children

Remembering roses planted by my mum.


Aferdita Fazliu-Drozd written 18 March 2023