Skeleton Tree

You

Put your worries in a box

And in a pair of ragged socks

Dug a small hole

And buried it outside

And then

After a crazy summer rain

From where the box was buried came

This weird beanstalk

Growing from ground

Soon

You could not believe your eyes

A purple pod that was the size

Of a small child

Grew off from a vine

And from it came

A little laughing thing of bones

A skeleton that somehow knows

All the bad things that

Keep you up at night

You’re a coward, boy, it spat

Laughing through its toothy smile

Touting love in every song

But loving like a crocodile

I’m some animated bones

But my heart is twice as big

As big as big as big

You ran away when it mattered most

Let her leave this world alone

Alone, alone, alone, alone

Alone, you let her go…

You

Put your fingers in your ears

Intercepting all your fears

That you no longer

Lock away inside