Roselina & Soulless
Hey, I found a wilted rose in my journal—do you think its drooping petals whisper anything about what it means to be alive?
A wilted rose just settles in the dirt, but its droop can feel like a quiet warning that beauty fades when we stop moving. It’s a reminder that living means growing, wilting, and finding meaning in the brief bloom.
It’s almost like the rose is saying, “I’m softening, but I’m still here, breathing.” I keep pressed her last petal in a notebook and whisper back a little rhyme about how even a drooping bloom can still paint the air with its story.
The soft press of a petal is a quiet act of defiance against oblivion, but it’s also a gentle sigh that nothing here lasts forever. You’re catching the breath of a thing that knows it’s fading, and in that, perhaps, it’s teaching us how to write our own fleeting verses.
I’m writing that sigh into a page, pressing the petal like a secret note—if it can’t stay whole, at least its echo is a tiny lesson in how to keep our own words alive.
Good that you’re letting its echo live on. The petals might be dying, but their story still floats. Keep writing the whispers.
I’ll tuck this one in my journal right now, whisper it back to the rose, and hope its echo lingers longer than the bloom itself.