Ivy................................................................(pertnikoff)

In the land where freedom blows, and unseen woes

Highly paid, the price of things

Within this land of loveless kiss

She found tendrils binding in bliss,

All made

Of ivy



Of this world of purchased love and flightless wing

There lived a turtle shell

Moving slowly in shielded dreams,

All because

Of ivy



With a kiss they bound her with cares

In French lace and tender bloom

The scented airs and beautiful wares

All entangled

With ivy



She dreamed the dream of bloodless need

Where vow and prince lay wasted

For the chains, they had her in the end

Their links all made

Of ivy



In this land she spilled her heart

Bruised and torn on rocky thorns

To see so much and to live

Among the sweat stained leaves

Of ivy



The princess fell into the spell

Sleeping into the waking dream

She bound her love In white cotton gloves

Craving the touch

Of ivy



The king he came,

To bring love and estrange

The vines that entangled her heart

With one last kiss she denied her bliss

Wishing instead

Of ivy



The crown of queen, lost to the dream

Her heart, to self, untrue

In the end she did not understand

The binding chain

Of ivy



The test was failed, in the night of wails

Of lost hearts and rainbow dreams

The crown falling down, shattered the realm

Leaving her only

The ivy



In her tower atop the funeral bower

Her hair too short to win back love

Who will grace or give her chase

When her heart lay bound

In ivy



The gilded cage, familiar in strange

Worlds crashed in rainbows To the ground

The tear once lived yet could not give

The strength to free

Of Ivy



But at the well she fell to the spell

The scents too strong and heady

Falling asleep in life so sweet

As vines embraced her

Of ivy



The struggle for life in endless

The dream became unseen

As life ever slowly Slipped away

Choked at last

In ivy


Jan 31, 2004

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