Snow & Ivy

Leaning in the doorway tall,
We glance out on the lilies fair,
Moving through the ivy thick,
We brush the red stems without care.
Pushing past the willows wide,
Our fingers we catch thorns between.

Sitting in the cold stream’s rush,
Our sores are cleansed, unseen.

I know a place where love is space,
Hate, prison bars encompassing,
I’ve seen a time where every chime
Calls steady for a reckoning
Of truth in love, of purity,
Of evanescent lasting light!

How can I say it, still a friend?
I’ll speak it true tonight.

But then we rise, we drip and dry,
We fall onto the luscious grass,
The willows cannot reach us here,
The ivy’s poison has all passed.
My love, you are my love you see,
I have not, though, said so before,

I pray to God this heart I bear
Finds rest upon your shore.

'Mongst the lilies leave me not,
These coffin flowers holding me,
I’ll perish to the world of hope,
I’ll die to you, my true, my sweet.
Oh take us, take me with you now,
Now take us further to the heights!

Where water turns to frozen white,
Bright in the moonlit nights.

Please hold me near, we need to stay
Together ever, or apart
Merely myself will I remain,
Alone with my dark human heart.
I sense your burdens, secrets, fears,
My share, my knight, let me bear too.

And standing in Salvation, we
Will last this dark world through.