Like Flowers Bloom

Each time she tried They fell to their death From the ledge of her lip To lie by her heart Where they endlessly stared Helpless, she knew They would never draw breath A sacrifice to The will of her pride The gardens she walked The gates rusted locked Like hair grown unkempted The Ivy wound wild Behind her she knew The grasses tall grew A serpent kept watch She cried as he smiled She lay back and bared Her throat, slim and fair Her buttons, she loosed Her breasts to the skies Violet and blue Like flowers bloom Bruised A testement to Those secrets, survived A shadow, the sun Down the rains come But pain was something She learned as a child