Adeline's flowers

Sometimes she says...

Oh these words,
She says.

"Jimmy wants to take me out to tea..."

Though Adeline has not quite fancied tea
She speaks to her Jimmy
Not only in dreams

"...he said the flowers were purple..."

And purple they were,
Once that time ago,
When Jimmy could have been

Was

Almost as real
As poor Adeline begs him to be

Just so she can run her fingers
Through his hair
Over his skin and
Across those petals

Maybe just
One more time.