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Every Flower Dies
🕑 Added 2022-02-26 23:58:09 +0000 UTCSometimes I write songs...especially if I'm feeling sad about people I will never see again.
Every Flower Dies
Last night
I saw the moonlight sparkle in your eyes
And my heart finally came to realize
I’ve always known the truth behind the lies
Love is just a bloom that flowers then it dies.
Spring’s hope is in a bees buzzing song
Summer suns help guide love along
Harvest colors should make us wise
That winter comes when every flower dies.
Some day I know you will remember me
A touch, a kiss, a sigh of memory
Years and miles and more between us lie
And the bloom of a love that had to die.
With luck we’ll never see again
The pain in each other’s eyes
A glance of sorrow shared and then
We hide away behind our lies.
Tonight I must plan to sleep alone
Moonlight will not sparkle in my eyes
Yesterday’s seeds were cast and sown
For some tomorrow when every flower dies.
Comments
Erin Halfelven at BigCloset
The measure of verse is does it touch someone. I wrote this while thinking of people I will never see again. I cast it as a memory of a lover but that was poetry. You don't have to be intimate with someone to miss them when they're gone.
Sammy C
Well, I needed a good cry and I got one with those lyrics, Erin. Reminds me of John Lennon's "In My Life," which also makes me shed tears, especially as I grow older and the memories refuse to fade. Have you ever heard Sean Connery's reading of "In My Life"? George Martin produced it. I'm all out of kleenex now! Oh, you.
Erin Halfelven at BigCloset
A friend is going to set this to music. I'll post it here when he's done.
Dallas Eden
I cannot but wonder what brought on such melancholy. Why is it that some of my favorite songs are all about losing the one you love? Why does heartache bring out such creativity? One of my all-time favorite songs has always been “I won’t hold you back” by Toto. Why does a song about losing the one you love strike such a chord within me?
