NOWHERE TO GO

If I could remember

Being a child,

I’d go back there,

To when things were so much simpler,

To when love was in a smile,

And peace in a cool breeze.

And I’d wonder how it would be

If trees could talk;

What would they say?

And I’d wonder just the same,

If birds could whistle words,

If we’d all up and change our ways.

O but it’s all gone away now,

All peace and all love,

Lost, lost in my childhood.

O and it makes sense to me now

To read about when Christ said,

“Let the children come to me;

Do not stop them,

For to such belongs

The kingdom of God.

Truly, I say to you,

Whoever does not receive

The kingdom of God

Like a child

Shall not enter it.”

So there it is,

Plain and simple,

In his words,

Not mine.

And now I wonder

About so many things

I wish I could find again.

And now I don’t know

Where I am;

And now I have nowhere to go.

But if I could remember,

I’d go back

To a smile,

To a cool breeze

In the mid-afternoon

With friends that would never leave

And a heart that always believed.

When I believed, I believed

There could be beauty.

Now I cry aloud for beauty,

For everything I hope for

But cannot see.

And now I have nowhere to go,

For the air is heavy

With the cries of the righteous,

And the ground is covered

In their blood.

And now mine is to question why,

To do right,

And to die;

That is my full duty.

So with all I am,

I walk on ahead;

But I hope, I pray,

I will see my dying day

Not so many years from now,

Lest I never make it back

To when love was in a smile

And peace in a cool breeze,

To my childhood

When friends would never leave

And God would still speak,

When I had ears to listen

And a heart that believed.

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