When You Arrive

Could you say hello,

remind them of a time and place,

when we would become men,

tell them we cannot forget

ever the tragedy,

the drudgery of being in a place

someone told us needed us to be there.

Yet could you please say hello,

I know that when I looked in her eyes,

when his smile reached my own eyes,

I knew then I could be a happy man,

if I might feel they were about to,

live too,

well then after all

if they might be able to,

I could maybe, might suggest

we all make it out of there.