V1

August was violent

But I swear I saw a sapling grow

Somewhere beneath the falling helicopters

Or by brushfires burning below

V2

You laid me down by the lilac bushes

Down where the fields are so green

I still recall how the moon was glowing

It was like nothing I’d ever seen

C1

Did you build a house?

Did you plant a garden?

Did you make it home safe tonight?

It is not that I

Need an answer darlin’

Just to know that you will be alright

V3

I am not afraid of the season changes

Or of the ocean that stands in between

But what I fear is the fickle nature

Of the blowing wind, how it rearranges everything

C2

Did you find a home?

Do you tend the garden?

Do lilies bloom there in the spring?

It is not that I

need an answer, darlin’

I am not burdened by pain or longing