[bedtime song inspired by real

conversation with David, age 2, in 1997]

Not tomorrow…

Not tomorrow 

nor today 

but ‘to now’ 

did he say, 

my son 

so tender 

at two. 

To now 

shall we hike, 

to now 

shall we bike, 

to now 

shall we go 

to the zoo. 

To now 

to the old 

is too soon 

and too bold, 

for the old say 

tomorrow will do. 

While to now 

to the young 

bonds a father and son 

‘cause to now 

lasts a lifetime 

at two.