Toula Balance


And so one more little step for mankind womankind
and all the other kinds of kinds
The kinders are moving on and up
No more health insurance
On this specific day it says so
You're not ours in that way any longer
It's not a big thing if you stay healthy
If you grow stronger from your tears
Those years we would walk through town
My little backpacker
Sometimes on my back
Sometimes by my side handinhand
Dark confident curious eyes
Asking your thousand thousand questions
Why does it rain? How do birds fly?
Why did Humby die?
I'd answer endlessly with as much detail
As I could hope a little one could absorb
We'd walk on logs or curbs
sharks to one side alligators to the other
Oh, nooo, you're dead, I'm dead
We fell into the sea
We lost our balance
We invented the little French girl
Toula Balance
You told the postmaster that's your name
"I'm Toula! Toula Balance!"
For Toula everything was balance
The dance of opposites,
dark and light day and night
Life is a battery with a plus and a minus
Poles that keep the flow
Flowing and our wisdom growing
Tiny Toula understood
We’d climb Mountain Pig
Visit Grandmother Tree
and leave our gift of leaves and ferns and flower petals
knowing it was all balance back to the roots
old man to dust, sun to horizon,
darkness to wisdom, on it swirls,
the spiral within which, somewhere, is my love endless
for Toula and thee for she lives still
deep within, can you see her and bring her home?
Can she walk the log and not fall?
Call her, she will come, she will dance
The sweet warm true Toula Balance

And so one more little step for mankind womankind
and all the other kinds of kinds
The kinders are moving on and up
No more health insurance
On this specific day it says so
You're not ours in that way any longer
It's not a big thing if you stay healthy
If you grow stronger from your tears
Those years we would walk through town
My little backpacker
Sometimes on my back
Sometimes by my side handinhand
Dark confident curious eyes
Asking your thousand thousand questions
Why does it rain? How do birds fly?
Why did Humby die?
I'd answer endlessly with as much detail
As I could hope a little one could absorb
We'd walk on logs or curbs
sharks to one side alligators to the other
Oh, nooo, you're dead, I'm dead
We fell into the sea
We lost our balance
We invented the little French girl
Toula Balance
You told the postmaster that's your name
"I'm Toula! Toula Balance!"
For Toula everything was balance
The dance of opposites,
dark and light day and night
Life is a battery with a plus and a minus
Poles that keep the flow
Flowing and our wisdom growing
Tiny Toula understood
We’d climb Mountain Pig
Visit Grandmother Tree
and leave our gift of leaves and ferns and flower petals
knowing it was all balance back to the roots
old man to dust, sun to horizon,
darkness to wisdom, on it swirls,
the spiral within which, somewhere, is my love endless
for Toula and thee for she lives still
deep within, can you see her and bring her home?
Can she walk the log and not fall?
Call her, she will come, she will dance
The sweet warm true Toula Balance

Posted: Tue - July 19, 2005 at 11:45 PM        
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