Lavender

She gave me lavender

As an alternative

I didn’t say to her

What I was thinking

I’ve been here longer

Than I was hoping

I’m going crazy feels like I’m losing it all

And we’re in the kitchen again

She’s drinking her coffee

We talk and I pretend

That I can handle anything

But I want to feel like a baby

I could die contently

In her arms of safety

Take the pressure away

To just a baby and her mother

There is nothing stronger

Than something so delicate

Something like lavender

She is overworked

disgustingly underpaid

And I doubt the children even know her real name

She likes to complain a lot

And it’s fair enough cos’ she never stops

And I bite my lip until it bleeds

‘Cos some days it’s even hard to speak

But she still picks me up and saves me every week

And we’re in the kitchen again

She’s drinking her coffee

We talk and I pretend

That I can handle anything

But I want to feel like a baby

I could die contently

In her arms of safety

Take the pressure away

To just a baby and her mother

There is nothing stronger

Than something so delicate

Something like lavender

And we’re in the kitchen again