Numbskull's "Repay With Roses" is about what it costs to keep comforting other people. The roses work as a metaphor for kindness, care, or emotional energy, which the speaker carries in a box and hands out to people who are having a bad day. At first it feels good: the speaker is pleased with the roses, and calls them "fetching." But the supply is limited, and the poem keeps returning to that fact. "I wish they were infinite but they're not."
The speaker also hides their own feelings. "Now I'm not okay but I am because I say I'm okay" shows someone who talks themselves into being fine. The repeated "Another rose" lines make the giving feel steady and almost mechanical, and the count falls to two, then one. The hope of being repaid with a rose never seems to come true. By the end the speaker wishes they had never had any flowers and says they are "empty," like the box. The mood starts light and gentle, then turns tired, lonely, and quietly sad.