Jake's Flea Market

she must have thought my life was the promised land
eden on earth   that’s why she came in

she must have thought it was june where i stood
the grass greenest as it was on the chapel lawn

she must have thought buds burst into green
leaves and there’d be apples
hanging from branches that were bare in april

she must have thought short shoots
broke ground and the crop
that came green would go gold at harvest time

she must have thought it was summer where i stood
as she strolled up the aisle on her father’s arm
her long train trailing along the floor and ah

i stared
how i was hers
into her eyes
when i lifted her veil
at the altar i stared
a promise into her eyes
that i’d always be
here for her and now

the promise breaks

i become an absence

and she becomes bride to the bleakest days of winter
that’ll howl around the house and her
alone with the baby 


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