You definitely deserve an ‘A’ for effort.

Your work ethic dictates policy,

keeps you after hours,

banks over-time pay.

While others turned up their noses at the challenge,

you rose.

Some undefinable quality

in your genetics

bred tenacity,

endurance,

courage.

While others toppled,

splintered,

faltered,

failed –

you rose.

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October roses are a real treat – this is the last of them, I’m afraid – but while the frost got most, and broke their spirits, these rose!