Fern (Your Love Endures)

Fern, no sunlight will warmly touch your face today

yet you show your indifference, with fronds of muted blue

Perhaps your colours represent the past moods of all forests lost

felled to the arrogance of a thousand axes

but look, you survived this saddest cost

Defiance reflected in mauve, farewells to friends in red tears

let your moods be known to all those who haven’t yet seen

the depth of true happiness, that we once shared, on many fields of green

and Fern, while you subtly colour this bland world, with your purity on display

I wonder why you reach out with arms unfurled, to that hope beyond the grey

to where only wild ferns can survive and grow within the shade

My darling Fern your love endures, beyond the days that it was made...

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* Words by Rob Pearldiver *

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