Sunblossom Song

 

Did you see the gravestone

emotion left in the air

where I left my heart beating

its last sound. A lingering wish,

sat in the longing of a kiss

held in sunblossom song.

 

I am speechless

at the way butterfly words

float between flowerpetal lips.

My heart lurches into my throat

at the way they serenade this

sentimental soul, choking

on razor-sharp words I can't say

like I love you, 

you mean the world to me.

 

My voice is an empty hearse

and my heart the dirt piling up

on a mound of earth. And if you blinked

you would miss the way I whisper

a silent prayer to a god I don't believe exists.

 

All the thoughts I let drift from ear to ear.

All those words you never hear

for they stay stuck tightly in here.

 

Come a little bit closer

I want to hold you near,

show you the universe,

and I'll place a shell upon your ears

so you can hear its song

as the stars settle around

our feet, like snowdrops

upon a meadow, where my love

is galaxies deep.

 

And if I opened my palms

I'd release a million butterflies.

Every colour under the sun.

For I want you to see the beauty I see

when I look on those flowerpetal lips

and the soul they sit upon.

 

And the moon will whisper

my untold secrets to the sky.

You can see them, hold them up

to the starlight, but the words

are only heard if you hold love inside.