Plastic Flowers

In the summer time

we met to see a threat

that came to harm

Something we both loved

And as the hours passed

we talked until at last

it came the time to part

I was doing well and I thought she liked my style

I had no business feeling like that but it lasted quite a while

I got my promises made but before the timeless father

I showed plastic flowers to Mother Nature's daughter

She held the vase her misty gaze brought back to life

I was amazed she looked at me with a tear in her eye

We went to give our thanks

along the river banks

and watched the water flow

as it rolled along

She scooped some river sand

and held it in her hand

and sang a little song

We saw the waterlines

left there from ancient times

I watched the sand falling through her fingers

on the shore so dry

I was doing well and I thought she liked my style

I had no business thinking like that but it lasted quite a while

I got my promises made but before the timeless father

I showed plastic flowers to Mother Nature's daughter