Floriography

Will you talk to me through floriography

Will you throw me a letter into the raging sea

Or should I stop?

I've been listening to ghosts

Imperceptible but so close

Searching for whispers to expose

I hope you're messaging me in code

Been reading all the things you wrote

Every insignificant footnote

Did you leave a mark on a tree

That reminded you of you and me?

Have you been trying to visit me in my dreams lately

Will you write me a song in cryptography?

Will you talk to me through floriography

Will you throw me a letter into the raging sea?

Or should I stop being so persistent

Searching for something nonexistent?

I've been reading behind the lines

Been deciphering the signs

A couple of million times

Did you fold a page in my favorite book

Marking words from a quiet nook

Did you make an acronym out of a lyrical hook?

Did you leave a mark on a tree

Or speak through floriography?

'Cause these ferns and foxgloves are following me

Must I heat up a piece of paper to reveal invisible ink?

'Cause I've been trying to tell you so many things

And have been waiting for an answer ever since

Will you talk to me through floriography

Will you throw me a letter into the raging sea?

Or should I stop being so persistent

Searching for something nonexistent?

"Meet me at the Taxus tree

Quickly, silently

Don't let them see, will you?"