green castles from Easeness Lift! by Parlyz Heal

Green Castles,
Watch me still in love when I believe the arguments I lose,
When my conscience is swallowed by flowering thistle
When mortar is softened by the sentences you use

Green cannons, green fresh-budding gallows
Watch’em useless, rusting under letter-writing roots
Every letter and every stone that I’ve hauled from the shallows
Live together, questioning each other I assume.

If nature chose to count it’s cubs I would wager you’d be one
I saw you sprout from honey mud I saw your all-subsuming love

Your reaches, you reacher, go unbounded
And your fear of loving past your means has been grounded

If nature had me belly crawl
Through decay and humus sprawl
I’d expect and impromptu call
From the one that feels it all

When nature has me let you go
Your footprints leave a watering hole
Where I stare back at what I know
And stare at only room to grow

for earnest ears