Forever

The roses are still going strong five days after Valentine's Day--in fact, they look better.

If I were a poet, I'd write something about how love matures and can become more luminous over time.

Eventually the petals fall, but by then the underlying beauty will have been revealed, and that it is what we retain in our memories.

The grass withers, the flower fades,
But the word of our God stands forever.
------Isaiah 40:8