Jackie's Waiting

Jackie found a box of roses
In a bedroom dresser drawer
The pedals all dried out and mourning
As if they remembered a life before

The colors were all but faded
Their life lost and hidden for years
Their beauty abandoned and waning
And falling like Jackie's own tears

Jackie's been desperately waiting
For a future that never arrived
She mourns for a loss so grievous
It's a miracle she ever survived

The miracle of walking on water
That so inspired her passions of youth
That a song could ever really save her
Was obviously not the whole truth

So what is left to revive her
Are there songs that can bury her fears
Who will sing that song now so fabled
That could lead her to new frontiers

As Jackie now hides her sorrow
Enclosed in a prison so blue
She waits for a morning to wake her
For a sunrise that lifts to renew

But what will finally happen
If hope has been lost for too long
And her gift of love never taken
And the giver forgotten and wronged