Friend

Friend I need your hand every morning

but anger and beauty and hope

these roses make one rose.

Friend I need a hand every evening

but anger and hope and beauty

are three roses

that make one rose.

Let’s fix our bed it’s in splinters

and I want to stay all year.

Let’s fix our bed it’s in splinters

and I want to stay all year.

Did you hear what that woman on Grafton Street was saying?

You won’t be killed today.

We don’t even know we’re born.

Credit

From Door in the Mountain. Copyright © 2004 by Jean Valentine. Reprinted with permission of Wesleyan University Press.