A Farewell Rose

If I’m gone when you awaken
Please don’t think I was unkind
As I left, I thought about you
And still hold you in my mind
I don’t know where I am heading
But I know where I have been
It was heaven to have known you
Though some might have called it sin
…Call it sin!
In the garden of grief
Silent flower grows
In the hour of despair
Come and touch a farewell rose
When you lay me on the table
'Fore you put me in the ground
Whisper close and say you loved me
So that I may keep the sound
As you wander in the graveyard
Past the roses growing on the wall
Pick a bloom and take it with you
For another at the ball
…At the ball!
In the garden of grief
Silent flower grows
In the hour of despair
Come and touch a farewell rose