Outdoor Academy

We decided one day to explore an unknown Outside weeded playgrounds we'd outgrown Wearing shorts, no shoes, shirts of cotton We ventured forward to childhood forgotten We babbled along by the brook. We hurried Through orchard grass, running past herds True abandon. We found God's saving graces Uttered ours, ate apples, washed our faces Laying under the spreading evergreen tree With just smiles, for a while we were free