Children Things

Raging Waters
Disneyland
the beach, the pool, the zoo

The movies
the theater
the toy store
playing with me and you

Attention, attention
showered on them
together, together
we'll listen to them

Patience, patience
we'll stay cool and calm
while kindly explaining
right from wrong

We'll fill their heads
with stories of virtue
empower them gently
teach them patiently
behave our beliefs
until when

With hearts of angels
and souls of saints
they'll grow tall and strong
and begin

Their journey in life
their plan now their own
together as one
our task will be done.

Like a Widow

Don't know where I'm going
don't much like where I've been
running, running but getting nowhere
like a widow, I'm like a widow

Do you really think I abandoned you?
I felt I had no choice
why did I feel desperate
and that I'd lost my voice?

My dreams were shaken up
reality sadly strange
strange enough to leave you
and all my dreams there with you

Little by little
stronger, I'm stronger
learning, listening, behaving, believing
on this safe course I stay

You're there yet so absent
you're there yet so gone
like a widow I am
but what am I?

Alone.