In the poem “Once We Were” from the book “Histories” by Charlie Samuya Veric, the poem sheds to light a couple whose tenderness which can also be considered as love in this regard was already present even at the beginning or the very start. It was a kind of tenderness or love that was eminent in a sense that it required no small gestures such as a ‘rose’ or a ‘kiss’ to prove it was there as stated in the poem in the lines “needing no white roses or such gesture as a kiss”. A white rose symbolizes purity, innocence and true love which relate to the idea of how relationships often start out and how the relationship of the said couple in the poem started out: pure and innocent.
As for the lines “morning would begin to find us looking for the
As for the lines “morning would begin to find us looking for the