Young As We Are

I was a child once, playing in a meadow
listening to the sound of a stream -
the joy it would bring
I was a princess, all lace and fineness
I didn't know what it meant to pretend I was queen
I was an actress, oh how I practiced my lines
Sure they were min
e
I was a goddess, standing in a white dress
striking the bell on the hill
turning the wheel

Young as we are
caught in the crossfire

living on the edge of a dream
we write the next scene
Young as we are
eye of the hurricane

we pivot on the axis of time
and we write the next line

I was a child once, I had a small voice
small enough not to be heard - at least not in words
but in all my innocence, I had the presence
not to know I could not be
- anything I pleased

in my creations of imagination, in my heart, I knew my part

playing in a meadow, I heard the world turn

and I took the wheel in my hand
a small grain of sand

Young as we are
caught in the crossfire
living on the edge of a dream
we write the next scene

Young as we are
eye of the hurricane

we pivot on the axis of time
and we write the next line

© Liesl Lee 1990, revised 2000
 

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