Where does it come from
where does it reside
this spring in your steps
and this spark in your eyes?
This elixir of life
that lifts you inside
to greet each new day
and each morning arise
to awake wide-eyed wondering
about today’s new surprise
we all know what it feels like
but where does it reside?
You took it for granted
that each day you’d feel fresh
with a smile in your eyes
and a spring in your steps
and a zest for what’s next
in this beautiful life
with so much you could do
and just so little time.
But one day you noticed
there’s no spring in your steps
and the gleam in your eyes
has gone out and has left
and you get up each morning
with dull dreary eyes
and you’d rather not get up
no you’d rather not rise
but you can’t find rhyme or reason
for why this might be so
why your gas tank now stands empty
and your motor just won’t go
and you’re staring at the ceiling
and you’re wasting away your time
wondering why your days are dreary
when you once were so alive
and you wonder out loud
will it ever come back
this elixir of life
that you had but now lack?
Is this how it will be
for the rest of your days
or will this thing pass
is it only a phase?
And you wonder out loud
where does it reside
this spring in your steps
this spark in your eyes?
And once you have lost it
can you find it once more
this lost awe and wonder
that you had once before?
This sense that we’ve all had
when we once were a child
to see the whole world
as if for the first time?
I can’t say that you can’t
but it surely seems hard
to put the pieces back together
once they’ve fallen apart.
Where does it come from
where does it reside
this spring in your steps
and this spark in your eyes?