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