FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
Do you remember that first day of school?
We had time to walk that simple mile
To the end of the village
Your little hand in mine
The time we shared was precious
It would not come again
Our walk in time.
Do you remember that first day of school?
Your mind was eager.
We had time to share.
The world was fresh,
There was much to learn.
The season brought the flowers
Even as it turned the leaves.
Our walk in time.
Do you remember that first day of school?
I said, "Dear what shall we talk of?"
Thinking you might like to learn
The mysteries of botany
Or the seasons in their turn
Languages or history,
Things they give
Our walk in time.
Do your remember that first day of school?
You said, "Father teach me Bible."
So I did proceed to teach how all began
With One, and with that One would end.
We talked of stories' origins
Asked what each one might teach
Our walk in time.
Do you remember that first day of school?
You would give your teachers headaches
With logic that you learned;
Smaller minds would falter
At the Truth that in you burned
Simplistic questions be denied
Our walk in time.
Do you now look forward
To a new first day of school?
With a little hand in yours
To walk the distance you might have
Sharing precious time
Time so dearly given,
Your walk in time?
© December 12, 2007 Albert K. Jungers All rights reserved
FIRST DAY REPRISE
Another day
Another walk
Another hand in mine
A different touch
Opposite way
And different look
At time.
You would not ask
What your sister asked
But would say what
Was on your mind
And test each thing
By your own design
And different look
At time
Each thing reinvented
Took different shape
Purpose unique
With answer new
Worked out by you
To your question
And different look
At time
©February 3, 2008, Albert K. Jungers, All Rights Reserve
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