I have denied long months that I sent you away,
But after a lot of time to think, I just don't...

The day I was born,
A robin was on the sill of my nursery...

A surprise for certain, for this aging man,
But I am happy and content, as I hold your tiny...

Deep in the recesses of the night,
Wondrous delight...

My mind is secure,
I have journeyed to a warm territory...

A creak of the wooden floor,
An amble, a bare movement, initiates a great...

I know that I am stupid, and you had wished I was...
You tell me I am worthless, and I bring you no...

There sits a girl of porcelain fare,
With long, flowing, golden hair...

All I have for now are my words,
It is the best I can do...

1st Verse:
There's times when we are together, I don't know...

The rocking chair has rocked half a million times,
She has paced nearly three times that...

A piece of me is dead,
In a rotten, swamp-like abyss...