Sitting on top of the roof last night, I met a young man,
With stars in his eyes he turned and said to me:
"I know what you're thinking, and I've been there, I ran -
Trust me, it's easier to live life in the sky, absently;
But it's not easier to miss your child's first steps,
For I remember now, as I looked down to my family,
She was looking right into my eyes as she wept:
'She finally took her first steps, Babe, did you see?'
Of course, I was screaming my answer down to her,
But she couldn't hear me, so she bowed her head,"
I looked over to him, tears so true from a fibber -
And as he took my hand in his, he turned and said:
"Now I know you don't trust me, and I don't blame you,
But if there's one thing you need to trust, trust your heart,
For it knows you best, it was there while you grew -
And if I could take back what I did, it would be a start."
Looking into my broken blue eyes, he stood and sighed:
"In my heart, I still hold my family dear to me,
And if you look over to that star up there in the black sky,
That's me watching down and smiling for you to see."
As he got up and left again, he left me with that advice,
One that only a fiddler on the roof could say so seriously,
"For every decision, there's a consequence, so think twice -
Is what my Dad had come back down to share with me.
-Jenna Elphick
May 28, 2007
[Meaning being that the girl was thinking about running from her family, and her Dad who was the fiddler on the roof, came back to tell her not to.]
