Magnolia

The story of a scorching hot, blistering love affair I experienced as a twenty year old. A profoundly meaningful yet mundane infatuation that left me love drunk, broken, and healed all at once.

There was no heat our flower did not know

White stained like a satin snow

I will never forget each magnolia I've seen 

Hearing them like a hot summer's scream 

Petals unfolding from inwards out, the first scream from its's mouth

That summer with you felt like a magnolia picked just at bloom

The scorching heat's scream was gone just after June

Outside my grandmothers house grew tall and proud

A magnolia tree its flowers falling all around 

The scent is so very sweet, I can smell the screaming heat

Woe is me to fall for a lawfully wedded man

The kind of love that speaks in code only we can understand

When two hearts are bleeding but there's just one bruise

I was your shadow, the other half you'd never choose

 Tangled like midnight"s bed sheets, in all those dreams I knew 

Safe and sound, you turned out the light, and tucked in the moon 

They all say she was such a beautiful young lady, you just called your baby

That's what any honest man would do 

 Then held her so tight, careful not to crush the magnolia inside of you 

The picture frame has broken right before my eyes

Did you love that magnolia or just her pretty lies?

Don't you see now she would be oh so sweet, once her screaming sound of summer is rid of the heat

I secretly hoped you'd know better than to pick that magnolia, not because now you can"t forget her, but because she will never get older 

I aged in dog years, but stayed the same inside, because there's only one magnolia you ever really liked 

Author's Note

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