Secrets (Cellar Door)

Drawn into the frost on the glass was a map

Pointing to my secret hiding place

It led you to the tree with the split in its trunk

On the way into your family's yard

In that tree, you saw I brought the dog back to life

I watch you from the branches while you stared

From the ground, with a look I couldn't understand

So I said, "Leave me alone

If your only words are ugly ones"

And you just smiled

And said, "Come and show me how it's done"

You dug up your old bird

And you held her to your chest

As I breathed life back into her lungs

And she blinked and flapped her wings

And she sang a familiar song

Before she took to the air and cut a path into the woods

And then I cried

'Cause all my life

I have known something was off

But you just shrugged and said, "It ain't just you"

Slipping on the pavement where we ran

From the ghosts that you saw behind the cellar door

That's the way that you showed me that I wasn't quite alone

That you'd also touched the dead before