Life in a Picture

I am glad a whole lot has been left behind

My tears, my hunger and mistakes too

I take a fresh start

I become once more new

To take a love and play with tools

I am off to a new life where the sun is brighter and the grass is greener

And when there is colour it is pink

Where there is sweet it is butterscotch

When it is cold it is winter

And when I am tickled it will be white girl

I leave home

I leave all behind

I am glad, perhaps I am

To a make mistakes a new

T o unlearn the art of farming and take up intellect

To unlearn the art of hunting to embrace catching my train

I leave all behind to become novice afresh

I leave my home to make myself someone else

In another room in God’s green earth

I leave to find life again

This time a stranger to homes I shall see

And a warning to the love I may find

I leave for another picture