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Daffodil Days
© 2014 Tracy Grammer

A festival tent
A wintertime trip
That library tour
His trembling lip
When he fell for me

Two years to the day
Our daffodil hour
Two hearts finally home
True love finally ours
He will marry me

Planned on living light and traveling far
Currency of laughter
Couple of guitars

A stormy first year
The whippingest gale
Rough waters ahead
Red flag for a sail
We're in trouble here

Ours daffodil stems
All rent and torn thin
Their sad yellow mouths
Cried the bleak giving-in
Surrendering

We did not have a language for our pain
I flooded him with pleas and sighs
He didn't say a thing

So I waited for words
I watched him for signs
Could our vessel be saved
Was he willing to try?
I couldn't tell

I won't pretend he didn't break my heart
But neither can I tell you
I didn't do my part

A stick in the spokes
Some mud in his eye
All angry and broke
No angel was I
I'm regretting this

He never pushed back
He won't sing along
No fight in this love
If he thinks i'm wrong
He will never say

No one can survive on nothing-there
I came here for the long haul
And now it don't seem fair

I waited for words
I waited a year
That waiting is all
That's keeping me here
I had faith in this

What to do but pack up and move on
In search of other gardens
Singing other songs

Weary of this game he likes to play
Does he really love me?
You know, he will not say

No shoe in the hall
No towel on the rack
No frame on the nail
I'm taking it back
I am moving on

Boxes in the truck
My cat in her crate
So long to this life
My daffodil days

The sun on his face
One tear in his eye
The man with no words
Is waving bye-bye

Bye-bye

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4/21/14 Doylestown PA