Parental Bounty lyrics

In youth it seems love is fair

Romance and words intimate

Intense relations, reason lost

Morning light, truth bright

What felt good in the night

May soon prove an aweful sight

But none know the span long

That far outlasts ecstatic bit

And awakens one to real truth

That a little life dwells near

And suddenly a world closes in

A child's days now fall away

And pinned, a parent coming

Accepted or rejected still

Destiny beckons at the door

It gives the chance for good

Greatness that thrives humbly

Kindness and understanding

Do not let the days flash by

For regret cannot bring change

And ways are set, left fallow

But no bounty will be reaped

On barren plains thrown, sown

And final days in starvation