Life In Trees - Dinosaur Bones

Wake up your things

And steal away after dark.

If only we’d sleep

Long enough to dream.

We’ll settle in trees,

Carve our names in the bark

Till our young are moved

In the purple dark.

Tell us a tale

Of ships with holes in their seams;

How they sink down

Into frozen dreams.

Tell me the one

Of dark spots in the sun;

Keep our cold skin

From living on the run.

But those words that you spoke

Twist till they lose their appeal.

And that catch in your throat,

It gives you away,

It’s not real.

Tired of trees;

Drop them all down.

Build a new life

On the barren ground.

Two story house

With blankets on the walls

To keep our young love

From having ugly falls.