Rise My Only Rose
Pieta Brown
Suffer without suffering
Rise my only rose
Idleness is going
As idleness goes
Take back what you gave to me
Take back what you said
Give up this wild giving
That’s been taking you instead
Rise my only rose
Don’t tell what we have done
Don’t tell what it has cost
But keep in idle moments
An eye on what we lost
Rise my only rose
Give back to me my gentile heart
That you never found was true
Haunted by this idleness
What use is it for you?
Rise my only rose
O keep in idle moments
Keep still in idle moments your wild suffering