The Bright Blue Rose

I skimmed across black water
Without once submerging
Onto the banks of an
urban morning
That hungers the first light, much
much more
Than mountains ever do
And she like a ghost beside me
Goes down with the ease of
a dolphin
And awakens unlearned,
unshamed, unharmed
For she is the perfect creature
Natural in every feature
And I am the geek with the
alchemists’ stone

For all of you who must discover,
For all who seek to understand,
For having left the path of others
You find a very special hand

And it is a holy thing
And it is a precious time
For it is the only way
Forget-me-nots among the snow
It’s always been and so it goes
To ponder his death and his
life eternally

For all of you who must discover,
For all who seek to understand,
For having left the path of others
You find a very special hand

And it is a holy thing
And it is a precious time
For it is the only way
Forget-me-nots among the snow
It’s always been and so it goes
To ponder his death and his
life eternally

One bright blue rose outlives
all those
Two thousand years and still it goes
To ponder his death and his
life eternally

• Written by Jimmy MacCarthy