Boundaries

                   Boundaries

It‘s important to know where you want to go,
To keep a tight reign on your life,
For you need to cut out, without a doubt,
All those things you cannot fix.
So I’m building a fence for my defense,
Around myself, my house, and my wife,
And I’ll build it high, higher than the sky,
And reinforce it with mortar and bricks.

They said it in class, if I wanted to pass,
They hounded me till I would break;
You’ll make a mistake, if you do not take,
Our advice and build you a fence,
So with hat in my hand, I stood like a man,
And with paper a list I started to make,
But I’ll tell you now, I don’t know how,
So this activity is really just a pretense.

Soon they forgot, so making a list I’m not,
And now this duty I can shake,
Then go back to my way, where I have the say,
And where there’s a lot less strife,
I’m really quite nice, I have little vice,
So please don’t think I’m a snake,
And on the whole, I’m a peaceful soul,
Kept on the strait path by my wife.