Violet's Chatter

Violet's face to face turning in confession Chatter in pleasant conversation in a green vestry of sins Their heads all heavy lolling with dew, They're looking up at me and you. Asking who are we Think you're looking down on us with your double chins. We're purer now than you you'll ever be How rude you are trying to weed us apart Is there no loveliness in your heart to depart? We'll grow in stone, we need little don't you know We are tough, we are strong and resilient We don't ask for much a little rain a little sunshine And we do fine. We don't quarrel we don't complain We don't go waging wars or driving tanks. We just say thanks Thanks for our little plot of earth of loam We don't expand our girths out of greed Just to triumph over the world dear with a burning ear. Violet's face to face turning in confession Chatter in pleasant conversation in a green vestry of sins Their heads all heavy lolling with dew, in the grass They're looking up at me and you. Asking who are we Think you're special think the Lord loves you only dear Don't you know every dewdrop is a tear shed for you? Trying to cure every wilful ill you do Trying to purify every ill, you have ever caused. Ah, we'll grow in stone, we need little don't you know We are tough, we are strong and resilient We don't ask for much a little rain a little sunshine And we do fine. We don't quarrel we don't complain And we don't destroy our heavenly home But nothing for you is ever enough, you strip every leaf, Turn ever stone, turning mercury poison into gold Doesn't it matter child what happens to your flowering soul?