Secrets (Cellar Door)

Drawn into the frost on the glass was a
Map pointing to my secret hiding place
It led you to the tree with the split in
It's trunk on the way
Into your family's yard
In that tree you saw I brought
The dog back to life

I watch you from the branches
While you stared from
The ground with a look I couldn't understand
So I said "leave me alone
If your only words are ugly ones"
And you just smiled and said "come
And show me how it's done"

You dug up your old bird
And you held her to your chest as
I breathed life back into her lungs
And she blinked and flapped her wings
And she sang a familiar song
Before she took to the air and
Cut a path into the woods

And then I cried
Because all my life I have
Known something was off
But you just shrugged and said:
"it ain't just you"

Slipping on the pavement where
We ran from the
Ghosts that you saw behind the cellar door
That's the way that you showed me
That I wasn't quite alone
That you'd also touched the dead before