Life in the Garden

Only standing beside

Asking how you feel

But where there's a back garden

I'll get alone

Sheltered or big skying

In day or in night

I build me a back garden

And take me outside

With no attitude

A melody hanging behind

A house that we didn't build

It's out in the back garden

Where no lions hide

With no attitude

I'm painting the bush blue this year

Mind practising topiary

And if thoughts grow broke

Or full of insects

I will cut off their heads

With no attitude

All things waiting

Under the ground

A sleeping dream

Of life in the garden

Some things digging

Others must climb

Help me to find

Them in the garden

One day breaking

And if a cloud

Covers the sun

We huddle together

Last leaf falling

Feeding the seeds

That grow into trees

The life in the garden