Urban sprawl of a different sort
Every house begins with a plan
Three bedrooms or four
The kitchen here, a bonus room there
Then come the inevitable compromises
Unexpected costs, unforeseen mistakes
If you're lucky, the end resembles in most ways the beginning
And life begins, so young and tender
A baby boy - with skin so soft
But a busted chin from a bathtub fall
Skinned knees so many that scars are inevitable
All before the age of ten
From then on the wounds - hard to see
A broken heart is barely visible to a CT scan
And broken dreams even less so
But the funny thing you notice
As life flies by
The house you build
So unforeseen and different
Has through the years become
The home
You always dreamed of
Three bedrooms or four
The kitchen here, a bonus room there
Then come the inevitable compromises
Unexpected costs, unforeseen mistakes
If you're lucky, the end resembles in most ways the beginning
And life begins, so young and tender
A baby boy - with skin so soft
But a busted chin from a bathtub fall
Skinned knees so many that scars are inevitable
All before the age of ten
From then on the wounds - hard to see
A broken heart is barely visible to a CT scan
And broken dreams even less so
But the funny thing you notice
As life flies by
The house you build
So unforeseen and different
Has through the years become
The home
You always dreamed of
dg
6/4/11
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