Narrow World

He said, as they kissed that night,
“Give me a daughter to love. I promise that you and she will always be enough.
If she’s a girl, she’ll never know the suffering of going to war.
If we have a boy, we’ll have to live a life that’s void of joy.
Foreign countries will always call, and we’ll be in constant distress,
worried each day if he’s alive, no longer at his mother’s breast.
So give me a daughter, someone to love who will be a daddy’s girl.”
Little did he know I wouldn’t be there To fit into his narrow world.
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