The Rose In The Wedding Cake ( Sestina )

On the table I left a rose
And in each of its petals, notes
So if you ever wonder, dear
Whether you and I are meant to be?
Just pluck a petal off and read
To find how I feel about you

This might sound familiar to you
But bear in mind this is a rose
Not a daisy that you will read
With “you love me, you love me not”, notes
But rather if we are meant to be
You will read memories once dear

Like the first time I met you, dear
Or the day I married you
When I was certain we were meant to be
And all we had was a white rose
Decorating our wedding cake with notes
That someday we would read

But now it’s up to you to read
It’s up to you to decide, dear
If you want to read those notes
Only you, and you alone, just you
Can pluck the petals off the rose
To see if we are meant to be

So if we truly are meant to be
Go ahead and pluck the petals off and read
The memories unraveled in the rose
As you pluck petal by petal, dear
Be prepare to see you, and only you
as you, alone, read those notes

Because as you can tell by those notes
The ones that tell if we are meant to be
There’s no one in the room with you
I am not here to read
Those invisible notes, dear
The ones in the wedding cake with the white rose

So as you can tell by the notes you just read
we are not meant to be, my dear
there is only you, there never was a rose

Written by: L.L.R.

Hopefully I got the form correctly.

Sestina:

The sestina is a strict ordered form of poetry, dating back to twelfth century French troubadours. It consists of six six-line (sestets) stanzas followed by a three-line envoy. Rather than use a rhyme scheme, the six ending words of the first stanza are repeated as the ending words of the other five stanzas in a set pattern. The envoy uses two of the ending words per line, again in a set pattern.

First stanza, ..1 ..2 ..3 ..4 ..5 ..6
Second stanza, ..6 ..1 ..5 .. 2 ..4 ..3
Third stanza, ..3 ..6 ..4 ..1 ..2 ..5
Fourth stanza, ..5 ..3 ..2 ..6 ..1 ..4
Fifth stanza, ..4 ..5 ..1 ..3 ..6 ..2
Sixth stanza, ..2 ..4 ..6 ..5 ..3 ..1

Concluding tercet:
middle of first line ..2, end of first line ..5
middle of second line ..4, end of second line..3
middle if third line ..6, end of third line ..1