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 givin 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 & 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