I woke up late today.

My selfish, shallow sin

Convinced me to hide beneath the covers

And give up before I'd begun.

 

I woke up late today.

When the world was dark and empty

And the light of the dawn and all things good

Was far beyond my reaching.

 

I woke up late today.

All the life that I could find

Was footprints, scents of all I knew

That had left me all behind.

 

I woke up late today.

The children I should have known

Had let me eat their dust, it seems

While not one of them has grown.

 

I woke up late today

And all the world's lost sheep

Had mown it down to brown and gray

So I just went back to sleep.