ROSE

[Note: Whatever is about to follow, or everything about this: the title, the story, may not seem connected, but I assure you, they are.]




I've been so horrible. I AM so horrible. 
I have been so selfish. I AM SELFISH. 


GREEDY


or much worse.. 










I.. uhm, actually don't know how to start this.


*sighs*


This is a story of the Queen. Her selfish acts, fear, vanity and pride. You name it. Oh, this is actually a tale. Not the Queen's but a rose's tale.


                   I just have to say it once. You just need to hear it. I love you.. And it's because I love you that I can't 
                       be selfish with you... I don't deserve you, someone out there does.


Once long ago, there lived a Queen. She had but only one beloved Lioness who was her pride and joy. To assume that Lioness' are vicious and cunning, still she feared to lose it. So she set forth a proclamation to summon every creature who can took care of her friend. Later that night, the Queen sat in her blue room with the Lioness' friend, the Lamb. "None of them could bring me someone. Someone who's honest and true - as you have been. Someone who's kind and patient - as you have been. I do not want someone who seeks only the power but someone who will value my friend for who and what she is - as you have."


"Tomorrow," said the Lamb. "I will bring you someone. Wait for me in the garden just before sundown."


The next day, the sun was almost gone. The Lamb appeared bearing nothing but the Lamb's self.

And the Lamb knelt before the Lioness, "My Queen, I do not possess what might other people had who knelt before you."



The Lioness reached out and put her hand to the Lamb's.















Need I tell you what's the ending - not because I am the storyteller nor that storyteller's should say it has a happy ending nor that all good fairy tales say that it should be. But because the Lioness and the Lamb knew their happiness was in their own hands, and that, was responsible for making sure the other was happy.








Where was the rose in that? That is the question.




OH, FOR THE RECORD? I SUCK. BIGTIME.