Roots

Ring the bell and shake the stars mummy's coming home 

I have been walking into lots of walls
We are the wall silly
See, we have a concrete soul

Do you get tired Alice
I ask
As she skips like a breeze beside me 

Never
There is no point in getting in tired
Not once you learn there is no bottom to the hole
She claps and sings

Ring the stars and shake the bells mummy's coming home 

I have been walking into lots of walls

The sun cuts through the blue sleeves 
Makes the hairs they made itch
Something monstrous I can’t scratch out

Are you there Alice
Always
Silly
You made me and kept me
I am in you and of you
I am all of you and nothing 

It’s just sometimes
You know
I think that it is just me

Everybody carries a ghost on their shoulder
Yours is not holy
She laughs and claps her hands

Our roots grew strong on rocky soil
Yes, we are big as sunflowers
And brighter than the moon

I hold her hand and try to smile.