Underneath

Roses are amazingly enduring.

It's been 3 weeks since the day of purchase.
These flowers remained rosy in color even if the silky petals were wrinkled with time, and the crowns of the blossoms were touched by the impatiently burning hands of death.

But the stems underneath were still vigorous, unexpectedly.

Bubbles were glittering with oxygen, clustering around the lengthy and graceful stems, and stretching the last moment of life.