The lavender sweet perfume; A little too old for you Though you were always more Of a summer child I seized you in a Winters night Migrating birds, Together we took flight
You crumble I know Under a gentle kiss, Not nips and grips At such tenderness, I value you sweet Delilah With more than primitiveness
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That dusky lavender scent Still draws me in, The cuddliness of the years Still comforts inward tears And I never let go of you, my girl That young sweet 16, Who never knew love
Though all those many years ago You played me for a security- false It was true, sincere I needed you here; Now that youβre gone, I feel myself disappear.