Petals of a Magic Rose

Everybody has a dark side

A shadow blackened by guilt and regret

Shame and remorse

A possessive passenger that creeps beneath the surface

Stalking, 

Waiting

To attack the purity 

and innocence 

Until there's nothing left but memories of a better time. 

The grass is always greener 

Until you lay on the other side

Until you fall on the other side,

too. 

Safety on a flat peak is an illusion

You must rise

To fall. 

Everybody has a dark side

Poorly-shackled prisoner 

Giddy with insanity 

As he tries to curb his insatiable hunger

For the hummingbirds and daffodils 

But hope is nothing more 

Then a gilded city which lay once in ruins 

Beneath the petals of a magic rose

Eager thorns await.