LIFESONG

What would it take to write a simple song?
Not an overlong, complicated, complex, philosophy on right from wrong.
Nor a chastened, hastened, ditty, on tormented lovers, all angst and pity.



What would it take to write a simple song?
To see life, through the eyes of a child and run down the street, carefree and shout and scamper and sing...........and just for five minutes, live life......
live life.....
Live life as we ought, not angry and fraught, we 'grown-ups' know all about how 'life is short'.



How would it be to write a simple song?
To be bold in our hearts and to hold in our hands a flower say, or a small plastic toy?
And without grasping within, giggle with joy!


What does it take to write a simple song?
A lifetime of loves and of souls lost and found?
Our hearts search for meaning before we lie in the ground.



And how will you be when your songs nearly done?
(as is the way with everyone)
Will you think of the fun that you had as a child, and just for five minutes, will you live  a while?
and just for five minutes............remember how to smile.



   Mark........December 1999......