Where Are My Children

Where Are My Children

Where are my children now
Why are their rooms left this way
Where have my children gone
Why am I left to live this way

I want to hear them sing
I need to see them play
Where are my children now
Am I that far away

Then they would run and hide
And they would have their way
Where are my children now
Please tell them that this is my day

The halls are echoless
Then they had so much to say
The floors shine too new
There are no toys to put away

I want to hold them now
Teach them so many things
I want to show them now
To live love to laugh and to sing

Will I ever be the man
They might want me to be
Or will I be a child
Who is more than empty
Wont you touch this boy within
Don’t leave me here again
Where are the children now

A quiet knock at my door
Need I pray anymore
Are they here at last
May I be present not past

My arms fly open wide
And they are by my side
Now my heart can be sure
That I am a child once more

My arms fly open wide
And they are by my side
Now my heart can be sure
That I am a child once more
That I am a child once more

Where are my children now

©David Worby