Lyrics I had a Long Convalescence, and I Wore Pearls in my Ears - Deborah Stokol

I had a long convalescence, and I wore pearls in my ears
I used to go by ship
And did not let slip
All the secrets in my care

I wore my shadows like a cloak
And there was darkness in my bouquet
I held my hand aloft; I whirled around and spoke
And I knew it was the day

But the seeds of the ancient fruit are red
One of these days, I'm going to hold what's in my head
Under ground, and over fire, I'm like a sylph
A symphony of blue, a wave of verdant hues

I had a vague premonition; I tore the letter's dark wax
I held my breath and read
I saw that you had fled
So I hied me off to bed

It came in fragments and pieces
The truth, I know, often does
Your tale tumbled out, and the Truth will out
It's what flows from the spout

The words form shapes for all the poets to opine
But at the end, I'll hold your heart and call it mine
And we'll walk upon those stones you knew so well
A life is made of all these moments in our shell

See the widening gyre
We're all beasts
Beauty is within us
Dusk has hit us there

I embroider sachets
For your sheets
You will cross the river
Leap to come to me

I held my own definition
Of love, I think one can't know
What the world is like, the oyster and the pike
Inside me flowers bloom and grow

The perils of being human
Do riddle those will go
To depths and voids below, the heights of ivy grown
In the hollow of His hand

Until death do us part
That, I hear, is art
The horse along with the cart

Icarus had wings
To the sea did fling
His mortality did bring

Pages torn and sewn
Tea leaves, future known
To the heavens we had flown