So many hands touch the roses

and you wonder why you cough

endless until you go out to the roses

in the open air and relax from the cough

then you meet someone who takes the roses

to keep them aside because probably the cough

is about that the rewards you are given like roses

for your precious time for a cause and then the cough

puts you first because you have to stay like the roses

as one still and tall ready to read what is in a cough