Orange Rose

Orange rose for orange Wednesday
So bright against the grey
Warming inside like a cup of tea
Hold your petals, just for me

Orange rose, 4 July
A year complete has floated by
when faulty wiring in the cortex
plunged me down a vicious vortex

Orange rose, palliative perfume
no more sense of impending doom
Lift me high, above the trees
Is that Ronsard's ode in the breeze?