Laurie's Song

Once I thought I’d never grow tall as this fence

Time dragged heavy and slow

But April came and August went

Before I knew just what they meant

And little by little I grew

And as I grew I came to know

How fast the time could go

Once I thought I’d never go outside this fence

This space was plenty for me

But I walked down the road one day

And just happened I can’t say

But little by little it came to be

That line between the earth and sky

Came beckoning to me

Now the time has grown short

The world has grown so wide

I’ll be graduated soon

Why am I strange inside?

What makes me think I’d like to try

To go down all those roads beyond that line

Above the earth and ‘neath the sky?

Tomorrow when I sit upon

The graduation platform stand

I know my hand will shake

When I reach out to take that paper

With the ribboned band

Now that all the learning’s done

O who knows what will now begin?

O it’s so strange

I’m strange inside

The time has grown so short

The world so wide