A gift I need to profess my love.
Pop culture tells me
A diamond is a girl’s best friend!
A diamond is about commitment!
A diamond is A promise of STRONG love!
A diamond expresses EVERlasting love!
A diamond is forever!
No money in my pocket just lint and a seed.

Yes, a seed I will give to my true love!
In a small box I place my seed
A note I write to my love!
Do accept this seed.  Let us plant it!
As it sprouts it will soon be a seedling.
The seedling will grow into a tree,
Our tree will protect us and warm us.
Our tree reminds us of our love.

As seedling fall and sprout more trees grow.
We can chop some to build our home.
We build a fireplace to burn dead wood.
In those long winter months we sit and carve.
Springtime comes we marvel at budding new growth.
A nest, we can see, birds sing a song   of thanks.
In summer we sit in the shade, protected and safe.
In the fall a thunderstorm, lighting strikes our tree falls.

Our tree is not dead, do not mourn.  
Our love is not dead, do not mourn.
Our love is transformed.  
Like the seed it metamorphoses
To the earth the tree returns.
Our tree transforms into coal.
Under pressure it becomes a diamond.
Yes, my love,  diamonds are forever.