Our love
We let it grow and bloom
And wildly it did too
And smothered the earth with beauty
Joy
Laughter
Happiness
We let it grow beyond the garden we had set aside for it
The small picket fence was too weak to hold it inside
It grew so large I couldn't walk away from it without walking over it
Stepping on its leaves and branches
Breaking vines and twisting them around my ankles like chains
It grew so large I couldn't see past the hills anymore
Just garden
And vines
A mangled fence
I couldn't escape the love we let bloom and fester and **** around this lot
I thought it could never end
The thorns pricked my skin
A drop of blood rushed from my flesh
And I could never leave this garden
This parasite that never died
Simply grew old and burst from the soil again and again and again...
Love is everlasting
And love is forever
Love is all you'll ever know
And sometimes love is the only thing keeping you in the garden
Coming back to tend to those few blossoms that peek through the jagged-edged grass