Lilac Morning
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I was a child in a simpler time:
My magic was the grass and the green sunshine.
But what could match this wonder, oh,
I wonder, unborn child of mine?
My mother was a warrior and she made me strong
My father was a saint taught me right from wrong.
But law now sins and lauds defeat
With my books burned, what can you learn from me?
If all that you've got are heartless toys,
How can you grow to a wise strong boy?
I know you'll be strong and wise, my girl,
But how can you bloom in a rootless world?
Why would I burden this hopeless time
With one more soul earth can't provide for?
Why would we choose, though, to deny
Your eyes the sight of the morning lilac?
I'll hold you close in the night
I'll sooth your cries.
I'll weave your perfect hands in mine
Dry your crying eyes.
How could we live and leave you lifeless
In eternal lands of silence?
Would an age unkind and violent
Abide me raise you sweet, and kind?
All I can dream for you, I wish for you.
All I can bring for you, I'll give to you.
All that our hands can do, we'll make for you.
All that this land could lose, we'll save for you
Who would want to bring new life
Into a world that was only silence?
How could we deny new eyes
The dewy sight of the morning lilac?
And if you come, we'll sew for you
Your baby clothes of pink and blue.
And if you stay in hopeful silence,
We'll see you in the morning lilacs
It's screens, machines and shrinking forests,
Our private sins, our public sores,
It's some three billion urban poor:
What could another soul be for?
But oh, my child if you're born.
We'll teach you how to love the dawn
Take your hand and go exploring,
Find a sky for you to soar in,
Toss you from the peaks and shores,
And teach you how to hear the chorus
Of the gifts we brought you for:
The twilight rose and the lilac morning.