What Changed Me
The sky was blue and the grass was green
With no sand to soil my feet.
Her breath smelled like bubble gum
When she kissed me on the cheek.
I left the world and felt a world
And that was what changed me.
I was 23 when I got married
And when procreation's call was heard
What happened to me became my great love.
I had no reason to hold my tears
When fatherhood echoed a sounding hymn.
The present held a future without cease
And that was what changed me.
I travelled gladly beyond any experience
Until responsibility bared it's chest to me.
When the slips, the figures were arranged in rows before me
I'd sit and looked up in perfect silence at the sky.
How soon unparalleled, I became weary and laid up
And that was what changed me.
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