Jewel on a Dying Branch

Verse

I hatched in the heart of a fallen oak

Little emerald ghost

Learning how the summer smolders

My shell a polished bowl of green

Pre-Chorus

Metallic sheen on my back

A burnished mirror

I crawl where the bark once stood

Chorus

I am like a jewel on a dying branch

Like a jewel

Slipping through the long afternoon

I am like a jewel on a dying branch

Verse

The sun came down through the canopy

Bruised and honey-thick

I counted every gold fleck

On wings I never learned to use

Pre-Chorus

Six weeks is a whole lifetime

A brief bewildering bloom

I trace the rings of the wood

Chorus

I am like a jewel on a dying branch

Like a jewel

Slipping through the long afternoon

I am like a jewel on a dying branch

Bridge

Beetle-green beetle-thin

I wanted more than this

Beetle-bright beetle-brief

I wanted more than this

Chorus

I am like a jewel on a dying branch

Like a jewel

Slipping through the long afternoon

I am like a jewel on a dying branch