like you

 

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Oh God, we like you very much, espesh-

ly how your children are a bit like you.

We know you've planned a grand Way, Truth, Life, meshed

with ecosystems all 'round what you do;

our small minds, aching hearts, and mortal lives,

are lines of poems that still need some more..

more lines that follow on. 'Till each arrives

we miss our rhymes, we need a stable lore,

or meter to enable us to read,

to even understand what we once  wrote.

So here we are, we'll listen, & we'll heed,

what you are try'na do, with ev'ry note.

We're seeing you are very like some Jazz

musicians who are playing as a band,

with not much music written. No ONE has

the score all sorted. They play "as they can."

You know the kind of music you might play,

but most of all, it will be with your kids,

and so together is the sort of way

they make their music - even banging lids.

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