If Tears Could Grow Flowers
If Tears Could Grow Flowers
If tears could grow flowers
I’d grow fields for you
When I think of how far away you are
I become very blue
I’ve cried more for you
Then you’ll ever know
I just wish where they fell
Flowers would grow
With a silent shudder
A tear lands on the ground
I’d be happier if in its place
A flower would be found
I’ve cried fields of dandelions
Which could have been wine
If I had you by my side
I’d be just fine
If a tear was a flower
I’d have an Aster so blue
A flower for your hair
Picked just for you
There are no flowers needed
On days when we are in the same spot
I don’t need flowers
Because crying I’m not
But most weeks I cry fields
To heal my wounded heart
Those are the weeks
When you must be apart
So as images of you
Leak out of my eye and roll down my face
I’d be so much happier
If a flower would grow in Its place
When you find your true love
And it is impossible for us to be near
There’s nothing to do
But shed a tear
When the thirsty ground guzzles the sadness
And nothing grows in its place
Sometimes it’s the harsh reality
We must face
Alas, my love I know you’re not going any where
I know exactly where you’ll stay
So my tears continue to fall
And I’ll have to pretend they’ll grow those flowered fields of May
As much as I hate it
And it makes me want to die
I can’t help but
To continue to cry
No matter
Even though we will be miles apart
I have you right next to me
Right here in the flowered field of my heart
Copyright © Jacob Jones | Year Posted 2018
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