You've taken me and made me grow under cold and snow
and I see the way you look at me with eyes that wish but restrain
You share with me little things like the coffee and mokes
the dimples on your cheeks the shape of your chin,
I grow a new branch and refuse to be belittled
I follow you to the gray in the clouds.
I see you smile and I take a new shot at another branch,
I watch myself grow under you amorously.
Your fingers and the way they settle on the wheel
Keep me underneath.
And yet I grow, I've got love in my bones now
And I feel the steady rhythm of my heart
The marching of my legs,
I blink a year
And wait to hold you.
Then I begin to feel, and it hurts.
My legs stop moving up from the ground and stop.
I begin to watch my branches snap and fall
like little bones
I step and it aches,
Yet I follow through
Like a good soldier
I forget my family,
I forget myself.
Growing under your love
and then leaving.
To fend for myself In a warzone
Where have you gone?
I lose sight of it all and keep you
In a photo from before
when you loved like a shout.
