Desert Cactus Rose

Once every seven years appearing in red Unfurling to spread petals to the evening air and night Chiselled out amoungst this prickly pear world Allowing the passing insect to stop turn and weigh your beauty and scurry on Your rarity will not be be stolen from this vast and mostly unvisted desert Without hangers on you feed your gorgousness with nectar unseen from within Staying long enough to dream a worth while life Deciding your position with unknown formula or care Irridescence to a fault to bat or bird Shine and all strength to you Your host will swallow you back in time but never can deny the world's stage you struted and fretted your stuff there on You thing of beauty a thing so sweet and aridly rare A seven year wonder extraordinary to behold or even to wear