Coming Of Age

Outside children are playing

Dawn and the sun’s first light

Innocence and wonder awakened

A morning of simple delights

School passes slowly yet fast

Soon graduation at last

Still learning but off on your own

In this world chart a course all alone

The eternal clock is ticking

CHORUS

Time limits what we have to give

Account and record the days we live

As if we’ve nothing reckoned

Could really ever save a second

Changes all our dreams

Aren’t as predictable as the means

To push us off from all our plans

Will meet the touch of other’s hands

Sun’s high, life in full bloom

Don’t rush to find afternoon

Savor the richness of youth

A journey pursuing truth

A ring, a vow, a life anew

Miracle from love of two

Teach them wisdom, and joy

Life’s lessons for both girl and boy

The eternal clock is ticking

CHORUS

Providing example and watching them grow

Influence subtle in ways that you’ll never know

The next generation will follow your lead

A family’s great contribution to society’s desperate need

With working days finished

The children grown and gone

There’s finally time to contemplate

All you have seen and done

An auburn autumn sunset

Sheds a rich but fading light

Lengthens towards a winter’s silence

Immortal as the starry night