A Rose for Zelazny

Lyrics & Music: Maureen O'Brien, 1995

Castles caught in Amber --
Pattern -- Unicorn --
Captured out of Chaos
For souls undreamed, unborn --
Infinite reflections
In mirrors of the word --
What he'd have made tomorrow
Goes unheard.

Men who dwell in darkness
And come to life at last --
Euhemerized heroes
Still haunted by the past --
Who'd dare damnation any day,
But fear love gone to dust --
He lived like them.
He died like one of us.

So here's a rose for Roger --
A black rose, and a red --
A blue one, and a silver
That he sowed inside my head.
Roses twined in laurel 
Though the petals fall and fly --
For the roses go on growing,
And his laurel will not die.