The Gown Of Spring

Softly, so softly I tread, through the gown of Spring

Listening inside to the dead, who hear everything

Whispering air stirs the trees who breathe in the light

And blossom drifts down through the leaves, a mantel of white

 

This wish for release sits so deep, within me always

As I watch for the summer and greet these lengthening days

Ponderous time stumbles by, refusing to rush

And I yearn for a lover that I might hold in the hush

 

Dusk never comes to a wood that is sleeping and old

With the light of my festering mood, turning ochre to gold

Dark shadows stretch to my feet creeping fingers of death

As I lay down my head and breathe deep, the last of my breath

 

All I yearned for is lost and passed by, the chances ignored

For I tried to sit back with a sigh and leave life unclawed

With the depth of my longing unplumbed, and my sadness inside

I lived all my life on the run but found nowhere to hide

 

So I hide in the wood and am dead whilst around me is life

And the whispers go on and instead, stab my soul in its strife

For the misery followed me here to this wood and beyond

And has promised to always be near, never breaking our bond

 

I wish you could save me before, it's too late to turn back

And bring to my life nothing more than the love that I lack

But my life slipped away, so I stay, right here in the wood

Just dead, watching day after day for a change of my mood

 

You saw me and never came close so I watched you from here

And I saw what I needed the most, but you never came near

My head warned me off but my heart just could not be saved

And I watched someone else take my part, with death drifting my way

 

As time takes its path you'll forget, the wood where I died

For at least here is time for regret and a good place to hide

Here I can never have been, where the trees move above

Through the carpeted gown of spring green with the weight of my love

Softly, so softly I tread through the gown of spring

Reviews

[Carey Lenehan]

Like the way this sings. A nice read, if a little long, but I got the point.