DARK FLOWERS – SUSAN VARO 2/28/97

From a nursery

Of misery

She plants them in the park

By a statue

Is where she once lived

Where she grew them in the dark

She plants dark flowers

In the middle of the night

Dark flowers

Until the early morning light

She has dark flowers

In an empty room

She puts them outside

Where they grow beneath the moon

She wore dark flowers

All over her hair

And beneath dark flowers

No one knows not where

Now the time has come

And there’s only one

For the world to see

Now the lady’s gone

Along came someone

Who does this in her memory

She plants dark flowers

In an empty room

Dark flowers

Until they all have bloomed