Carol Ann Duffy - Demeter lyrics

Where I lived - winter and hard earth. I sat in my cold stone room choosing tough words, granite, flint, to break the ice. My broken heart - I tried that, but it skimmed, flat, over the frozen lake. She came from a long, long way, but I saw her at last, walking, my daughter, my girl, across the fields, in bare feet, bringing all spring's flowers to her mother's house. I swear the air softened and warmed as she moved, the blue sky smiling, none too soon, with the small shy mouth of a new moon.