Secrets (Cellar Door)

Drawn into the frost on the glass

Was a map pointing to my secret hiding place

It lead you to the tree with the split in

It's trunk on the way into your family's yard

In that tree you saw I brought the dog back to life

I watch you from the branches

While you stared from the ground

With a look I couldn't understand

So I said: leave me alone

If your only words are ugly ones

And you just smiled and said

Come and show me how it's done

You dug up your old bird

And you held her to your chest

As I breathed life back into her lungs

And she blinked and flapped her wings

She sang a familiar song

Before she took to the air

And cut a path into the woods

And then I cried

Because all my life I have known something was off

But you just shrugged and said: it ain't just you

Slipping on the pavement where we ran from the ghosts

That you saw behind the cellar door

That's the way that you showed me that I wasn't quite alone

That you'd also touched the dead before