I Hear A Cardinal Singing
Lyrics
I held your offerings in my heart
a deep-toned climbing rose
I saw you as a part of me
not a stop in your oval course
my heart's beauty was meant to accentuate
your wander weave of vines
but you went around getting samples
no planting in your mind
there'd be no eventual tendrils
for my heart to climb
you skirted a stronger connection
tamped me down to smaller size
with your wander weave so vast your love couldn't be to my benefit
let alone lift to the sky
with gem-like tenets
I hear a cardinal singing
with its whole heart into it
it sounds like the way I want to be loved
night and day with a clear commitment
reduced to a forlorn root
no, that won't be my woe
I'll chart a most natural rise
as a climbing rose evokes
something profuse in appearance
a deep toned red nothing slighter
a stronger bond of substance
with a constant aesthetic lover
I hear a cardinal singing
with its whole heart into it
I can sense a beloved garden
my climbing rose knit within
