In The Daisies

You ask just how deep my love is
what you are questioning is my strength
to handle all these changes, not knowing
if there will be stability,
and if so, its length

You want me to drop my life
and forsake travel on my own road
in hopes that I will be your wife
true, I believe, by love you showed

Feelings change tomorrow's plans
and a clandestine journey is made
past possibilities, through pain, then numb
then you admit you are no longer afraid
and say how you wish you wouldn't have stayed

Then you leave me kneeling, choking,
flooding and gasping from the fall
like I'd been shot, just not to death
and yesterday won't matter at all
it'd be too simple to say I dropped the ball.

Life is making changes for you
and you want me by your side
you'll be well off, living well off
the beaten path, I will reside
behind the picket fence you build
in the daisies that I grow
and there I will be buried without you
when feelings change, and they will, I know.

My roots go deep enough
but I'm only as strong
as a daisy in a hurricane
re-planted there
where it doesn't belong.