BALLAD Poem: Pick Me a Flower, by Addie Hemsley

Pick me a flower
and I’ll give you my day.
We’d laugh and talk
of adventures we’d like to take;
around the world,
flying through clouds and dreams.

Buy me a bouquet
and I’ll give you my night.
Filled with romance and passion
lips do what hands do
under streetlights, and backseats,
stairwells and park benches.

Build me a garden
and I’ll give you my life.
Tied to one another, I’ll forever
ve yours–as your eyes are blue
and mine are brown.

Give me a seedling
to love and to hold.
Together we’ll cherish a love
never known until cries from
tiny blue lips.

Lay down one singular rose
on my tomb made of oak.
where we will say goodbye
till our hearts intertwine once
more in the clouds.