Laurel to a Wreath

I followed you through palace gates

Over prison walls

The sewers of the fourth estate

I watched you crawl

Then one illicit kiss

Kicks you in the teeth

And love’s a thorny crown

And it has wintered down

From a laurel to a wreath

So many tales to tell

All the lives you changed

People left bewildered

From themselves estranged

Though you tried to shut your mouth

The eyes bequeath

And love’s a thorny crown

Blown away like thistledown

From a laurel to a wreath

I flit around your candle like a moth

And when the flame flickers and fades

I sleep in your cloth

Through derelict and dead-end streets

Guttered moonbeams

I am just a tumbleweed

Blowing through your dreams

And am I over you, or underneath

And love’s a thorny crown

Blown away like thistledown

From a laurel to a wreath

And love’s a thorny crown

Rusted oil brown

From a laurel to a wreath

From a laurel to a wreat