Flowers (Eurydice’s Song) Anaïs Mitchell

[EURYDICE]
What I wanted was to fall asleep
To close my eyes and disappear
Like a petal on a stream, a feather on the air

Lily white and poppy red
I trembled when he laid me out
"You won't feel a thing," he said, "When you go down"
Nothing gonna wake you up now

Dreams are sweet until they're not
Men are kind until they aren't
Flowers bloom until they rot and fall apart

Is anybody listening?
I open my mouth and nothing comes out
Nothing
Nothing gonna wake me now

Flowers, I remember fields of
Flowers, soft beneath my heels
Walking in the sun
I remember someone
Someone by my side
Turned his face to mine
And then I turned away
Into the shade