Ivory Peonies
Somewhere in the dark corners of my mind
The places we go to hide
I wish I were four and still a child
You say grow up, be a little more mild
I never asked you to stay and wait
In fact I think I warned you I’d be late
Flowers only bloom in the spring you see
And it’s been winter for eternity
Explains the cold shroud around my heart
And you thought i was just playing tart
No babe, but dessert sure is sweet
Yet haven’t you learned that I ain’t
I made you a pie, you baked me a cake
We spent that whole winter down by the lake
Trying to fix, to forgive, to forget
Strangers out of season, frozen with regret
I told you I did, I warned you I would
Get bored with gardening in the cold wood
He thawed my ivory peonies one magical night
Now from you I run with fright
Back to the comfort corner of my mind
Very safe place to go and hide
I’ll pretend I’m four, a prodigious child
I can’t hear your screams, your call of the wild
Some say a cold-water death can be euphoric
For your sins, I know you will burn for it
You and your dreams, now locked in a hard cell
I hope I haunt them from my cold watery hell