I can remember years ago
When I was young and free,
I met this beautiful lady
And she fell in love with me.

Then one day she said to me
"Please accept this gift I've chose"
And when I opened up the box
Their lie a beautiful porcelain rose.

The porcelain rose was long and black
Like one I've never seen before,
On the vase these words were written
"Our love forever more".

She said, "I have one just like it"
That I keep close to my heart,
Now we can share them together
For our love will never part.

It wasn't long there after
I called her on the phone,
The phone just rang and rang
There was nobody home.

We both loved each other
We were as happy as could be,
Then one day she accepted
My proposal to marry me.

Then I found out later
Down east she had to go,
Her mother was sick and dying
She didn't have time to let me know.

Weeks went by and then months
Waiting for her to call,
Forever reading those words
On my porcelain rose just down the hall.

Twenty years have now gone by
And my life hasn't changed that much,
I'm still waiting with my black porcelain rose
And the return of hers so they may touch.

And then one day I went out browsing
At an antique store I had stopped,
I went inside to look around
When my heart just suddenly dropped.

For over in a cob-webbed corner
Stood a vase with a black porcelain rose,
"Our love forever more" had been written
On this beautiful gift she chose.

I asked the owner of the store
How he obtained the rose I bought,
He said, "It's been here for fifteen years'
And came from the east he thought.

Now our black porcelain roses
Are reunited after all these years,
I'll remember her face forever
As life goes on behind these tears.

Written by Terry P. Barnes (c)
"The Heartbreak Kid"

This poem is used with special permission from Terry. Thank you. 

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