Blossoms

The weight of my phone

Like a tablet of stone

Seems to grow with the words I just read

And it silently falls

From my hand to the floor

With the wonders I wished I had said

And for a time there is timelessness

Endless furore

To the dark I said pour and forgot to say when

And the words that you wrote

Come back blacker than smoke

I'm so sorry, I’ve done it again

So I gather up the candlelight

Jangle the chimes

And mop up what is left of my lungs

And I climb up the ladder

Had I taken more care

I might have seen all the rot in the rungs

And I pack what is needed

For the journey to come

All my books, all my bracken and booze

And the door shuts behind me

And I breathe in the air

And say yeah, well I'm sorry too

And I stare at the soldiers before me

All my blossoms that have waited to fall

And I walk

And I walk

And I walk

And I walk

Knowing every last one of them is painted in light

As I make myself acquainted with the saint of never getting it right

My dress is on fire

And I hurl myself, I heal myself

I drag myself like a rug in the rain

And my saint she is dancing

As every step I choose to take

Begins to set the world aflame

And the soldiers march behind me

I can hear them beat their spears

And for the first time in all my life

I know I'm more than what I fear

And I stare

At the soldiers before me

All my blossoms that have waited to rise

And I walk (I will walk)

And I walk (I will walk)

And I walk (with you)

And I walk

And I walk (I will walk)

And I walk (I will walk)

And I walk (with you)

And I walk

And I run (love run)

And I run (love run)

And I scream out to the sky

(Love run, love run)

You do not get to hurt me just because I asked you once

If you were alright

And I look at the phone

On the floor and I drink

That nice wine you were saving, it's saving me now love

And my soldiers sit by

Like I'm newly baptised

In the blossoms that fell from above

And I pick up the phone

Dial your number and wait

And shine like my petals once shone

And just as it’s ringing

I whisper aloud

To my saint

Oh we, we’re gonna get on