Keep you safe

I would keep you 

in a cottage by the sea 

Blue curtains 

breathing with the breeze 

Wild flower crowns 

and pebble shores 

I would gather you close 

I would hold on tight 

Knowing that this moment 

the glass jar

would shatter 

would crack 

Like a bomb 

like a gun 

screams and blood 

The innocence wouldn't last 

The golden hues of yesterday 

would splinter and die among the ash 

You've exchanged crowns for crosses 

Life for the face of a cause

Oh, Had I kept you 

in a cottage by the sea!

I might be waiting your journey home, instead of you waiting for me. 

Reviews

[Johnny]

Wow! at first it seemed like it was going to flow into like a love poem of expressing intentions benign in nature.. but then it suddenly transitions into something more intense and almost violent! now im not too sure how you intend to have the last set of lines understood.. but I interpret them in conjunction with the mentions o a bomb, glass jar, and a gun.. did she kill her lover? and now he waits for her in heaven?

In any case you have a very well written piece here sweetie!

[Crystal Overmeyer-Birmingham]

Thank you for your kind words. I wrote as a mother to a child, her stuggle to keep her child safe and all the harm the world does.