Lucy gray
She spoke her name
With an ounce of fear and a hint of shame
She grew up on the banks of prague
Amongst a sea of peasants swimming past
She'd be blessed
For death brought fast
Oh if she only knew her future's cast
Became brittle, broken, cracked!

But on nature's breath she felt at peace, as deer grazed on grass in sweet summer's breeze
She let her heart come flutter free
As she drank from the moan of a dying creek
As the forest stood in awe!

Oh what secrets her mind revealed
From nature's enlightning swath, the meal she picked from forest's floor has sprung her mind free from it's chains
The wool was pulled
The curtains fell
What social fauds she begged repealed
And the forest sang in praise!

She sought like minds to reconnect in the midst of preception's disconnect
Young fawn stepped close and bowed its head
She stroked fine fur in deep regret that she'd never seen like this
And scores would join as her voice rang out,
A beautiful song of love in doubt
As a lost youth overheard

As her song, it rang amongst the trees
I held my heart and wept in fear
For the future of love sat in the wings
And this is what she said

"Love and pain guide two headed hearts
One servant at the gates,
Cut one off and you'll surely fail
But in taming pain love shall prevail
The pains I've hid for 20 years
Love, domesticated, then did reveal
It's shining grace to tear-stained face
And nature sang in tune
The heart is save for a wild beast
But when tamed it did in turn
Shield my soul from pain
Heartbreak sought to nail my coffin
Yet I kicked and screamed and I begged and pleaded
In fighting night's cold damp embrace
I fell in love with nature's grace!
And here I shall stay till the day has come
When love no longer shins my face"

The levees broke against my legs
I ran to her and love was safe
As the woods rejoiced
From the ticket forth blossomed love's true saving face
A rose as sweet as love breathes pure
Not in fear to be plucked, or forced to growth
A nurtured love
Oh we did share
In love's purest form
As the world sat in the dark