Then Let’s Keep Dancing

 

I only knew one perfect person

And he was crucified, my father said

Yes, but then he rose, I might

Have said

It was the argument beneath the argument

Not a debate about

Points of faith

 

I didn’t know all the demons then

There are others

To learn

My father’s got the best of him that was

His joy and anything of wisdom

I never got the teaching I deserved

Any child deserves

 

It’s a long way past hate

Worse, dismissal

That became the only way to get along

Stranger, either way

Never a decent conversation

Decent as in real

 

I can only sigh about it, now

So much of it is dust

Like the Kansas song

Or the one by Peggy Lee

Every generation needs a song,

According to my professor

Something that turns

That turns us into mortal means

Reminds us we are seasons

 

C L Couch

 

 

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“Wind on Wheat”

 

“Is That All There Is” is a song created by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, famously recorded by Peggy Lee.