Maturation

I'll be somewhere tonight

Far from here and this life

I'll be somewhere tonight

Far...

But no, sweet-eyed contender

Don't stare like that

Think of me as

Remember me as...

Dead

Withyour shaking head

Let me steady it

Hand on your chin

Leave this last vision

Of me

Clear and unclouded by this lachrymose parting

Sigh...

Compose yourself, wet-eyed defender

Pull it all together

Though I know

I know so well it's

So hard

No, no, no,

That one desperate sentence

But I'm sorry, girl

Take it all in

In dreams when you couldn't fend

You couldn't fight off the darkness

No, no, no

I tell you this:

As parting gifts fail

As these sweet words fail

Compose sweet thoughts to recall

Me

After it's said and done

After you've been sad and...

Well...

You'll be grown

More

You'll become

More than the child I left you

More...

I hope I leave you as

A Woman