The Nursery Song

With a rustle of angel wings you entered my life,

So Small -- yet you filled my heart with song.

Tears of joy welled up in my eyes --

A grandson -- I've waited so long!

I felt her wings touch my face

As she laid you in my arms.

I looked into your eyes and saw,

Not the innocence of a brand new soul,

But the wisdom of the ages,

And still I rocked you and sang you a silly nursery song.

With a rustle of angel wings you left my life,

So small -- and my heart so full of sorrow

That only six short months we had,

And what a fallacy that word "tomorrow!"

I feel your wings touch my face

As you go about your daily task

Of drying my never-ending tears --

Now you wrap me in your soul of innocence

And with the wisdom of the ages

Rock me, and sing to me a silly nursery song.