By Any Other Name

By any name, an object's prime directive never fails to hold, for adjectives are pale of hue if what is hot is labeled cold. The metaphor is too to blame if perched precariously in words, for life still bears its qualities if ever deemed a dream absurd. A hurricane who has been named a devil's deed will not delay his woeful winds nor see as sins the lives he drowned or blew away. And know that morbid memories are bound by nature to outlast the man who holds in him their weight though thinks them burdens of the past. To desperate men, the regal rose is but a blossom bred from shame to hide, not show their hearts; although, still sweet, that rose by any name.