Croix De Guerre

Hard as granite and cold as 
stone, loves so far been barred. 
Her loveliness came in spring 
time and a rose became my 
heart. 
Swept across the ocean came, 
sickness atop the tide. 
A plague that anguish falls 
beneath, and causing rage to 
die. 
I so young did fall for, a 
promised spring for ever more. 
Alias the rose that was my 
heart, died in winters war. 
It wilted in the snow and cold, 
and time it could not bare.
It's bravery and in the face of 
disdain, could win the croix de 
guerre.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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