You might be a lantern On a river I will never see how you shine Unless I follow you into the sea On a boat Among flowers in multitudes Breeze that crisps the winter snow Around in circles the petals roam When the tide turns and rivers meander The trees will wilt in moonlight Dipping their twigs in reflections of crystal ships Pastoral deciduous trees waving their leaves in a million shakes Swaying in a billion angles of angel grace Down by the river where the petulant flowers turn grey and sulk