Unrepentant Miners
Unrepentant Miners
I look out over what should have been viridian fields
Where daisy and dandelions
Found their picturesque beauty
Wild and free
I felt the meadow of summer skies
Lay their heads beneath your bare feet
To kiss at your ankles with their secrets
Wild and free
I saw the written verses
Your laughter in April dales of rain
Beneath a willow tree you came to me
Wild and free
I heard you dance on dewdrops
From gentle hills to mountain heights
You pirouette in my eyes
Pirate of my sighs
Wild and free
…………………..but the wealth of your heart
is a treasured prize
to another gluttonous search for gold
unrepentant miners gouge
excavate your beauty
to an open cast
terraces dug deeper than the scars
and though it hurts to see
your dream piled like so much unwanted earth
still given time
in your own clouds of love
those bright yellow flowers
lift up the heads again
but still they search for the precious of you
they couldn’t see and never will
they claw at your soul
for riches they just can’t understand
and think a balm of shovelling it all back
you might grow again for them
they just don’t know that the dusty roads
have trampled you there
Wild and free
I touched the meads of winter skies
Lay their icicles beneath your feet
To kiss on your eyes with their secrets
Wild and free
I saw the unwritten pages
Your joy in the hidden streams
There beneath the willow tree when you came to me
Wild and free
And I watched you sing with lightning
From the echoed prowess of your storm
You dazzle in my eyes
The sweet pirate of my sighs
Wild and free
…………………………..but to them your heart is a mine
open and cast with the scars
they are just too greedy to see
they think in the fields
where your treasures dwell
just iron and steel to build their world
and leave you a pit
to get on with your life
any way you can
I look out over your verdant fields
Where daisy and dandelions fall like gems
Found their prophetic serenity
Wild and free
Copyright © Colin Mitchell Williams | Year Posted 2009
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