I took his hand and followed

My dishes went unwashed today
I didn’t make my bed
I took his hand and followed
Where his eager footsteps lead

Oh yes, we went adventuring
My little child and I
Exploring all the great outdoors
Beneath the sun and sky

We watched a robin feed her young
We climbed a sunlit hill
Saw cloud-sheep scamper through the sky
We plucked a daffodil

That my house was so neglected
That I didn’t brush the stairs
In twenty years no one on earth
Will know or even care

But that I helped my little child
To noble adulthood grow
In twenty years the whole wide world
May look and see and know.