Read in 2011

Learning to Swim  - Sara J. Henry
Love is inexplicable and incomprehensible. You know it when you see it. Proximity may be temporary; but love - so precious, so fleeting, yet so tenacious - never quite disappears.
 
As many legends have sung since time immemorial:
 

Love is a rose

but you better not pick it

It only grows when it's on the vine.

A handful of thorns and

you'll know you've missed it

You lose your love

when you say the word "mine".

 

I wanna see what's never been seen,

I wanna live that age old dream.

Come on, lads, we can go together

Let's take the best right now,

Take the best right now.

 

I wanna go to an old hoe-down

Long ago in a western town.

Pick me up cause my feet are draggin'

Give me a lift and I'll hay your wagon.

 

Love is a rose

but you better not pick it

It only grows when it's on the vine.

A handful of thorns and

you'll know you've missed it

You lose your love

when you say the word "mine".

Mine, mine.

 

Love is a rose, love is a rose.

Love is a rose, love is a rose.