Gold Digger

When I was a child I used to pick flowers from the creek behind the house and press them between pages of books I loved because my mother told me to immortalize the beautiful things in life because they never last

She was right, too

Robert Frost said it first of course, and Johnny echoed it as well when he breathed his last words to Ponyboy

Nothing gold can stay

You are gold to me.

You are a golden-maned stallion in a field of dreams where the sun is always setting and it reflects beams of purple and pinkish light off of your coated silhouette in the distance

You speak words of far more value than gold when you reassure me that I am human again because sometimes I forget that my life is worth living too

You will probably never realize how golden you are and that is why I'm scared

Nothing gold can stay

I'm begging you to let me take you and press you into the pages of my mind because I want to immortalize you in your golden perfection

Please let me put you into the book that I keep under my pillow every night so that I can rest easy knowing that you are there and you're still golden

Just stay this one time Mr. Frost please be wrong just this one time let me keep my gold so that I can keep going

When I was a child I used to pick flowers from the creek behind the house and press them between pages of books I loved because my mother told me to immortalize the beautiful things in life because they never last

I'm not a child anymore but I still feel the urge to defy the Frost and keep my gold