Oh, My Lover
Find me down the garden path
Where the blue roses meet
touching sunflowers close to the creek
Like spring time in bloom
I’d longed to meet you
But my father said it was too soon
We weren’t ready for a love affair
But your eyes told a different story
Tantalizing so it seemed
When you said my name sweet like honey
Thick with an accent, drawing out my name
You left me roses by the statue of Lady Magdalgne
Don’t you remember when you whispered
that she looked as beautiful as me
And when I compared her forlorn eyes to yours
You laughed and said
you were not sure
How such a great woman came to be
We met on the garden path
Just like she
When you got down on one knee
And held out a ring too wonderful, too neat
You asked my father for his permission
To marry his only daughter
That’s when he drew in a heady breath
But knew he’d come to like you through smoke filled breaths he said “yes” just like I did
when I met you on the garden path
beneath Lady Magdalgne