Bright Blue Rose

(intro)


I skimmed across Blackwater without once submerging

onto the banks of an urban morning,

that hungers the first light much, much more

than the mountains ever do.


And she like a ghost beside me

goes down with the ease of a dolphin

and emerges unlearned, unshamed, unharmed,

for she is the perfect creature, natural in every feature

and I am the geek with the alchemist s stone.


For all of you who must discover,

for all who seek to understand,

for having left the path of others,

you find a very special hand.


And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time,

and it is the only way,

forget-me-nots among the snow, it s always been and so it goes

to ponder his debt and his life eternally.


For all of you who must discover,

for all who seek to understand,

for having left the path of others,

you find a very special hand.


And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time,

and it is the only way,

forget-me-nots among the snow, it s always been and so it goes

to ponder his debt and his life eternally.

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One bright blue rose outlives all those

two thousand years, and still it goes

to ponder his debt and his life eternally.