Dream and Dream

little porcelain fingers delicately turn the pages as silently she is mouthing all her favorite parts of this piece she knows by heart go on, grace all the earth I will trace your footsteps as they fall out on the front porch an evening breeze lifts all the leaves into the sky where her old man told her angel, you’re getting awfully tall go on, raise your sails the winds of time will bring you back to me her bedtime prayers already said the moon and stars kissed her goodnight and bid her close your eyes now, sleepyhead until the morning go on, dream and dream of all the precious means of life and loving