women are flowers......

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Yesterday, I received this beautiful flower basket from my "bosses" for the secretary's day. It was filled with purple iris, pink mini carnation, red roses, lavender freesia, pink daisies, and this gorgeous pink lily. It reminds me of a song, it's called "女人花“（Women Flower) I translated the chinese version lyric into english, but it doesn't really do its justice, hopefully you will see what it's trying to convey...

我有花一朵

I have a flower

种在我心中

planted in my heart

含苞待放意幽幽

budding quietly and peacefully

朝朝与暮暮

every day and every night

我切切地等候

I am waiting

有心的人来入梦

waiting for someone to enter my dream

女人花 摇曳在红尘中

women flower dancing in the sand

女人花 随风轻轻摆动

women flower beckoning in the wind

只盼望 有一双温暖手

she is longing for a pair of warm hands

能抚慰 我内心的寂寞

that could soothe her deep loneliness

我有花一朵

I have a flower

花香满枝头

grow into her full bloom

谁来真心寻芳踪

but who is on his way to find her

花开不多时啊堪折直须折

oh the fleeting blossoms

女人如花花似梦

they are like women, and women are like dreams

我有花一朵

I have a flower

长在我心中

it's growing in my heart

真情真爱无人懂

with this true love that nobody understands

遍地的野草已占满了山坡

weeds are already speading all over

孤芳自赏最心痛

sadly, she is her own admirer

女人花 摇曳在红尘中

women flower dancing in the sand

女人花 随风轻轻摆动

women flower beckoning in the wind

只盼望 有一双温柔手能抚慰 我内心的寂寞

she is long for a pair of warm hands

that could soothe her deep loneliness

女人花 摇曳在红尘中

women flower dancing in the sand

女人花 随风轻轻摆动

women flower beckoning in the wind

若是你 闻过了花香浓

if you smelled the rich fragrance

别问我 花儿是为谁红

don't ask it is for whom she turns red

爱过知情重

you never know how deep love is until you loved

醉过知酒浓

you never know how luscious the wine is until you taste it

花开花谢 终是空

flowers bloom, but soon will wither and disappear

缘份不停留

love is waiting for nobody

像春风来又走

like the spring breezes they come and go

女人如花花似梦

so women are like flowers

and flowers are like dreams

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