Lush & Buggy

If you were the elephant
Then I'd be the cow
And if I acted like a crocodile
Then it was you who showed me how

If you were my nasturtium
I'd eat you when you bloomed
Like your laughter giving birth to
Every daydream in my room

And no I never did believe in ghosts
But I expect I'll be one soon
Haunt the soil of your garden bed
And the fabric of your loom

If I ever met a cactus who
Was only poking fun
Then I'd swallow you right up
And savor every splinter in my lungs

And if I'd asked you by that riverside
If the color of death is blue
Would you have climbed up in that fig tree
And harvested not one, but two

I wonder if you were a happy child
Who built castles in your mind
And I wonder if that clouds crave dirt
The way I crave your time

Oh I think we might be satisfied
If for today we just stayed still
And we don't accomplish anything
And your acceptance is my thrill

Would you take me to that place you know
Where not so many go
And together form the kind of trust
I wasn't shown before

And I think that I'd be happy with
A life of simple charms
Don't always have the words to say
But got the patience to transform

Please be that sweetest memory
The drifts me off to sleep
All the little ways your landscape
Meets my valleys and my peaks

My heart has had a heavy year
And I know that yours has too
I'm terrified to open wide
But I would like to try with you

Light the candle of my innocence
And the rosehips of my shame
God I never wanted anything
The way I want to say your name
To every stone and star and flower
That I meet along my path
Circle pine cones round my petals
And just maybe this could last

Like that lush and buggy moment
When it was only just us two
And the wind kept blowing faster through
The story of how we grew

I've fallen in and out of love
But I'm learning to make do
With this body of impermanence
I'd be so glad to share with you