Wisteria

Wisteria - Hands Like Houses

This is where we fall

Sleepers scattered in the soil

A finger deep dragged

Through the ground

A blessed thought

In harrowed halls

We could think of nothing else

But what our patch of earth contained

Reminded by our dirt stained clothes

Of planted possibility

In tender ground

As bare as birth

A shoot emerged from beneath the earth

Mary Mary

Tell me how your garden grows

Tell me what it takes to come alive

To see what you have sown

Because I've grown into the ground

And there are branches in my bones

I am overgrown

Overgrown

I am overgrown

Overgrown

Between two branches

A rope and tire we cast

Between two worlds

Each one higher than the last

I chose the air

Chose higher still

And left an eden found

But in abandon

Lost my grip

And shattered chose the ground

In unkept chaos as bare as birth

A garden grey of tangled earth

Mary Mary

Tell me how your garden grows

Tell me what it takes to come alive

To see what you have sown

Because I've grown into the ground

And there are branches in my bones

I am overgrown

Overgrown

I've been lying here too long

The branches pushing me

Apart where weakness showed

But then September swept the overcast aside

Dusted off the winter's curse

And she cut me through like knives

She whistled proudly

Her season's song

And showed me that

I was alive all along

Mary Mary

Tell me how your garden grows

Tell me what it takes to come alive

To see what you have sown

Because I've grown into the ground

And there are branches in my bones

I am overgrown

Overgrown

I am overgrown

Overgrown