Muddy Honest Note

I could write you a letter

draw the words into the ground

let the rain fall on top to never see,

and it'd still be so profound.

If you never saw it though

how would you ever really know

Mother nature wouldn't whisper nothin

my secret would never grow. 

If I wrote you after the dew was down

The dirt would be real nice

I could scroll the letters into the ground

trace over it more than twice.

I'll wait a little longer

for the dirt to dry up tight

I'll watch the beetles crawl across the dust

and disappear into their flight.

From the hard dirt forms the letters

with a stick, I'd draw the lines

If it rained on that beautiful day

I'd just pretend I'd changed my mind.

I could write to you a letter 

say the things I firmly hold

Tell you what I long to speak aloud

some honest words I've never told.  

I could write it in the mud

with that stick I'd hold so tight

I could write it after a long hard rain

let it crust and dry through the night.

If you saw that letter

that I'd write into the ground

It would say, "I love you so" 

in dried hard mud leaves swirling round.

What would you say in return

to a muddy honest note

a letter scribed into the ground

it is nothing really but some wet dirt.