Coloured Roses

As we stood solemnly looking down at that deep hole each of us tears held in our eyes. We bowed our heads and a prayer to say when someone placed a bouquet of coloured roses on the ground before they buried you away. A stranger whom we did not know smiled and serenely said to us that these flowers represent their life, and what they gave to us. Red roses for the blood that pumped around a kind and generous heart. Yellow roses for the smile that they gave us whenever we were around. Blue roses represent the colour of their eyes that looked at us softly when they were alive and for the feelings, we feel within our hearts today. Orange roses represent the sunset beyond where they have gone today and where we hope to meet with them again someday. White roses for the eternal light we all must pass though one day and the purity of spirit they wrap around us each day. Purple roses for the mourning cloak each of us wear at times like this. Theses colours represent the rainbow wrapped around each life. Your loved one has not left you but passed through to the next phase. The stranger then looked around smiled serenely again at all of us then slowly faded away.