Follow our dumb rules
Not because they make good sense
But because they’re ours
They push and they pull
All expecting you to be
The thing they need most
A moment in time
Being what I yearn to be
It soon passes away
How could I forget
About going in to work?
And what if I did?
The rhetoric flies
He’ll destroy America
They’re driven by fear
Coming in early
Staying late, bringing work home
Feels just like old times
Feel like a grown-up
In control and confident
Making decisions
Duties to perform
Some you dread, some you don’t mind
They all must get done
Screams at the airport
Children scared and out of sorts
I know how they feel
It’s not paranoid
To see plots all around you
Just plots within plots
They’re not coming back
I don’t know how to get home
I’m lost forever
Drop him off and go
Does he ever get scared of
Being in strange places?
Some folks find problems
Wherever they go. Nothing
Is quite good enough
She likes to read books
Snuggled together in bed
Prefers Mom to me
Target is the place
For footballs and dance outfits
What a parent needs
There is no running
The game is golf not hockey
Will they ever learn?
Go at your own pace
Don’t let them push you around
You are in control
You live day to day
They’re looking years down the road
You must act as one
Don’t ask them what’s next
Tell them where you are going
And let them adjust
A happy place for
Little girls and little boys
Keep them warm and safe
Demands on my time
Competing priorities
Just can’t do it all
Pain in my stomach
Perhaps it’s something I ate
If not something worse
Bugs in the salad
Wonder how many I ate
Better not to know
Time at the office
Leaves little time to be home
Should spend it wisely
Waiting for a friend
Lunch talk to help us realize
Our full potential
I just can’t relax
I’m driving my wife crazy
I’ve no peace inside
Stop wasting your time
On things that don’t advance goals
You must stay focused
Ignore or confront?
There should be a middle way
To handle problems
They can’t get along
Nor meet each other half way
They won’t even speak
I am what I do
I am what people perceive
I have lost myself
A thousand small choices
Made over the course of years
Add up to your life
