Scavengers with dirty faces
Curls like angels, savage sweet
Iron, plastic, wood, and fabric
Ragged dolls play in the street
Wild potential, hidden talent
Like a sun touched spring untapped
Kept away by father's choice
From darkest powers e'er untapped
Long ago they once had bound him
In a gilded cage was he
Until love and circumstance
He both conspired to set him free.
She would never feel the fetters
Never wear the yolk he'd worn
She would ever know the freedom
Into which she had been born
"Just help when needed by the good
And shun the ones who don't feel right
Let your nature guide your mind
And keep your talent in the light
Don't fall into where I once fell
Into the traps of gold and pride
Before I was released by fate
My spirit very nearly died."
Words that he had whispered to her
Every night since she'd first breathed
Heartfelt from a heart discovered
On the night she was conceived.