Faded Roses

faded roses on the wallpaper leaves bent back in an imagined wind fingerprints of a thunderstorm cling to the wet image she says it was a lovely thought that gave birth to such beautiful drawings that any child could see many adventures to be in such lovely daydreams a place where the child of her heart could run free decorated with faded roses celebrated by teddy bears and tea sets on long summer afternoons in the beautiful sunshine while brothers and others chased firefly's like days of old aeroplanes dogfighting daredevils in the forever blaze of glory swashbucklers that save the day and win the girl ride off into the sunset tv screen fades to black faded roses on the wallpaper are all that remain sunbaked in the passing years a lovely thought that gave birth to our childhood a swift dream faded away