Blooms symmetrical
Petals from a rose
I held you in my hands too tight
You only felt my blood
Spindly spiral thorns
It was your skin
I held so close to my chest
And my heart

I bleed
I see rivers raging
As a river flows from me
And even my hands can't staunch the pain

Now
What was the past?
Only a beauty besieged by time
Unspeakable crime
Now
What will I be now?
I only have my feet
I only have the next step I will take

In a world full of pavement

The flower doesn't grow from concrete
Still at the stoplights in the street
I read your name
And love you still
The flower doesn't grow from concrete
But all these sidewalks
I see your face
And love you still
The flower doesn't grow
From concrete
These parking lots
Where I got lost

Never to feel your spiny thorns again
Never to really feel
Never to bleed
Never to love

I used to bleed
And it made me happy