All These Things

I promise you all I won't fall down

I promise you all I won't skin my knee

Like you promised you'd always be around to take good care of me

And I remember you standing behind a white picket fence with a white peaked face

trying hard to embrace my youth

before it escapes, before its too late

and clutching the fence she said

"How have I hurt you, What have I done?"

"Did I desert you, or spite with my tongue?"

"Was I too eager, or loved you too much?"

I love you too much

Now that I'm all grown. I'm feeling so alone

Why have you brought me here?

You say all these things I say but It's not the same

I'm feeling so alone today but all I know

I'll ice my thoughts I'll ice my mind for now

It's not your fault, You did what you could do

For this I will love you, for always

you hold my tiny heart and my tiny hand

thank you for all these things