Ode To Every Man

The dwindling dying part of me Refreshed Aware Awakened Alive as if a flower Unfolding in the dark A bloom plucked from her branch Merciless Abandoned Discovered Opening there within your hands As they ran from end to end And of my merciless sadness And of my ever-ruined veins Beat by beat Throbbing once more in remembrance Of a long-forgotten dance To dust off my valances My balances In my discretion Your hands were my direction And they led me to myself There within your arms I thought I can outlive myself I can live forever Eternally embraced For the lines that make your face Trace the shadows upon my brow And now and then I see you There inside my mind In the deepest darkest part of me It's great love that I find For love in masses Or love in drops Fills my shallow pool A dry and dying desert A century of hurt A body bound to fall to pieces There within the dirt Your love the only reason That love's my only rule As what love has in seasons Aye, its treason is its jewel I needed you in moments Where I knew no sense of worth Where tears would be the rain Blood the soil Body, earth Sadness has become The inner workings of the mechanism That is my barely beating heart A complied fracture of bones Take the shape of my ribs And sorrow, sorrow alone The liquid formula of my swollen veins I am alone in my loneliness Not forgotten nor cast out But chosen to be one who is both with And then without --- Ode To Every Man - Melody Gardot