Would you pay five dollars

Would you pay five dollars for just a single rose? For Writer's Cramp

Would you pay five dollars for just a single rose?

It seems that
The world is spinning
Out of control

Rampage inflation
Energy crisis

No warmth in the winter.
Gas prices rising
Food prices
twenty times higher.

So many people are afraid
That they will slip down
The economic ladder.
Poverty awaits.


New Prompt: Would you pay five dollars for just a single rose?
Use the above sentence as your title and mention in bold the following:

energy crisis
no warmth
twenty times higher
poverty awaits