Are you ready to meet your maker?
Could you look him in the eye?
Are you ready to meet your maker
if today's your day to die?
It could be 50 years from now
or it could be this afternoon
but either way
you're gonna say
that it's too soon.

You live your life
and at the end of the day
when you close your eyes at night
and all your memories replay
do you rest easy with the pictures
flashing on that screen
or do you wake up 
in the middle of a scream?

chorus

Look at a child
look at the innocence sifting out
like hourglass sand
replaced by sorrow and doubt.
What have you done?
Have you been the cause or cure?
Did you hold his hand
or ask him who
his mom and daddy were?


By Lisa Rodriguez
1996