i made it through the darkness
i had stepped out from the night
to a blue sky that was waiting
spreading wide the sunshine light
i had grandma there to hold me
i had family who had wept
in too many distant hours
in the rooms where i had slept
is it spring or is it summer
does it matter anymore
because my small steps meet the pavement
like they always did before
and a hand is there to hold me
lent from family and from friends
there's a dawn that's always waiting
when the new day now begins
i am right there in the middle
of each life i dare to touch
and each prayer that they have offered
lets me offer back so much
i am knee high to a grapevine
i am small but i am strong
and my life plays out the music
in a never ending song
every minute still more precious
and i know no reasoned rhyme
i'm too young to think through changes
that can change me over time
there's the green grass and the gardens
as they bud in life anew
and i drink the cool air waiting
like some heady life-filled brew
there's a guy that writes about me
in his poetry and songs
and like hundreds there with others
he is right where he belongs
i can give this life to many
in my spirit and my trials
as we trudge our roads together
as we tread our distant miles
there were blue skies for the taking
there were parks with fields of green
bringing somehow to my memory
things that i had rarely seen
and the world was better for it
that my little frame was there
i was blooming like the blossoms
and new life was everywhere
i am right there in the middle
of each life i dare to touch
and each prayer that they have offered
lets me offer back so much
i am knee high to a grapevine
i am small but i am strong
and my life plays out the music
in a never ending song