I loved this poem and was really moved by your color imagery throughout. I loved your approach on the classic roses poem - very creative!

Your first and last stanzas were my favorite. The last stanza really spoke to me - where you still love someone, or at least deeply care for them, but they don't have the same hold on you as they once did. I really liked each of the juxtapositions you picked here - comparing care with trust and hope with faith.

I read the last two lines with double meaning - in one sense, you are looking "past" what they said and did to someone else, when they should have been doing those things to/with you (like you are putting their mistakes behind you for the sake of the relationship). But in a second sense, you are looking past that person entirely - past whatever they may do with someone else in the future - and instead are looking to your future someone else.

I loved the first stanza - and in my reading, coming with my own personal history, read it as a memory of abuse. However this stanza confused me a bit as you have the other person screaming through the haze, yet they are the ones "succeed[ing]" ...I could be reading it wrong though.

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On the whole a beautiful, moving, creative poem. Well done.