I Was a Boy, Once, Lost In a Wood
I was a boy, once, lost in a wood,
Where I stood, alone and scared.
Sunk within the damp earth moss,
I wondered across the wood shadows.
The loom branches arched above,
Claws of a turtle dove, caught my every breath.
Smells of burning bracken hung the air,
They didn't care, the birds of the undergrowth,
That a boy had become lost,
Frozen soft, the stillness of the air I remember.
Until the warm arm embraced,
Softly placed, a body I knew so well.
The darkness had now gone,
The sun shone, upon my golden hair.
I looked back and smiled,
At that scared child, crying alone.
I was a boy, once, lost in a wood.
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