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Quicksand ~ it must have been!
Category Archives: childhood
Fantasies Lost
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Innocence is lost — not when taught
“You’re born a sinner!”
That it’s a fact and you shouldn’t act
like that to be a winner
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It’s lost about the time when taught
that Santa is a lie
The Easter Bunny, Superman…
and Jesus had to die?
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Who taught the children fantasies?
Their dreams would not come true
Who’ll represent the innocent
when experience makes them blue?
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They’ll find they have to love themselves
and in their hearts believe
You’re innocence is all you take
from this world we all must leave
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Mother’s Piano Bench
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She’d call me into the parlor
to come and sit by her side
I always knew what she wanted
the joy that came from her pride
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Mother alone possessed the keys
caught off-guard by her fingers
The chopsticks, I’d play from her knees
Still the memory lingers…
Uncle Tree's House 