Elsa's Song

I can hear the cannons calling

As though across a dream

And I can smell the smoke of hell

In every stitch and seam

And like flowers, the bodies tumble

Around this muddied lot

I cannot hear them scream

Forget me not

Your voice it carries over

The hubbub and the hum

And it paints the sky and circles high

Like the beating of a drum

You will scream I won’t forget you

But I’ll cover my cold ears

It cannot be a lie

If no-one hears

'Cos although you say good day to me

I know I don’t belong

And although you hold my hand and say

I love you, you are wrong

Because love does not exist here

In this garden there’s no feeling

And you say the words so often

That I barely know the meaning

And when all the flowers are rotten

And all the cannons shot

I’ll scream, but you won’t hear

Forget me not

And in years to come you’ll wander

To the place up on our hill

And then you’ll cry to our painted sky

I loved her then, I love her still

And you’ll strew some sage and lilies

And roses where I rot

Of all the flowers you picked

I knew you would forget

Forget-me-nots