YOUR SONGS TO ME ARE FLOWERS

                by Emily M. Parris
                Dedicated to John Denver

Your songs to me are flowers
Each one a different hue
Expressing all the happiness
The truth you find in you

The words are precious petals
So beautiful, and so fine
That each help form the flower
As you add them line by line

The music is the holder
For the petals of the song
The stem that holds the flower
So healthy, firm and strong

The fragrance of your flowers
Comes from your soul - so fine and free
The spirit of God within you
That will never cease to be

Your songs to me are flowers
Each one a lovely bloom
So beautiful and fragrant
As they blossom in my room

Your music is the sunshine
It brightens up my way
You help me find the God within
When I listen to you play

I feel a kindred spirit
I feel not so much apart
When I listen to the melodies
That you've written from your heart

Like you, I am sometimes soaring
And then suddenly deep in despair
Then I'm glad to have your music
For I find some comfort there

I wanted you to feel and know
The joy that you are giving
When you write and sing so eloquently
Of the life that you are living

Your music is the sunshine
Each song a glistening ray
Of the joy you find in living
Of the things you have to say

Your music is a gentle breeze
That whispers through the trees
With a special secret message
For anyone who sees

A message of the loveliness
Right here before our eyes
In the mountains and the valleys
In the grass, and trees and skies

In a bluebird or a meadow
Or clouds floating in the sky
The beauty here around us
That can make our spirits fly

I see it too and I cherish
The beauty that I find
Within your lovely flowers
Made from words within your mind

We are all a part of each other
Though the people who know it are few
And the magic I find in your music
Makes me feel a part of you



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Copyright 1975 by Emily M. Parris
Written 9/5/75 in San Jose, California