Ivana Raymonda van der Veen - Orchids Never Die

Orchids grow in places dark and far
not in the park where all the flowers are
The rivers flow in places wild, and high
people age day and night, orchids never die
The sunshine and the rain
bring mystery, and vanity
relinquish all the pain
like an orchid on a tree
forever young
Innocent as flowers, deadly as a knife
emerging from the shadows, we want all your life
Surrounded by the light, up in the sky
will we still forget, orchids never die
The sunshine and the rain
bring mystery, and vanity
relinquish all the pain
like an orchid on a tree
forever young
We wonder about the unknown
and the strange
yet we always fail
to try
and change
After life is gone
will you let me be?
standing all alone
like the orchid that is me!