What The Roses Say

In reference to Quote #203.

The quote says that the roses say you do not have to choose. I think McKinley is wrong. I think that if roses could speak, they would say you must choose. That is crucial for you to choose. Roses stand for silence, not love, dear. I think the roses would say 'choose. Choose, before you can't. Choose before it is too late to.'. I think that the roses would say, 'do not make the mistake we did. Choose, before you can no longer speak. Because when you cannot choose, your silence is filled with your regrets'. 

In my religion, roses were all formed white. But if grief, my love goddess, Aphrodite, cut her heel on a thorn, and her blood dripped onto the rose, staining it red. She was rushing to the aid of her dying lover, Adonis. She was grieving, not loving. They may have become her sacred flower for that, but make no mistake, it was not for her love. It was for the haste of her feet in grief. Sacred to her for her grief. Not her love. Roses should not stand for love. They should stand for grief, for the ugly emotions in life that make up mortality.

But before there was Adonis, there was the god of silence, Harpocrates. Very hard to dig the dirt on, but I've got it. The rose was given to Harpocrates by Eros, as a bribe for not tattling on his mother. A symbol of dirty secrets. 

The roses would say, 'choose. Do not stand in silence'.