- Moments In the Woods [ Contents ]
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- Wife: What was that?
- Was that me? Was that him?
- Did a prince really kiss me,
- And kiss me.. and kiss me..
- And did I kiss him back?
- Was it wrong? Am I mad?
- Was that all? Does he miss me?
- Was he suddenly getting bored with me?
- Wake up! Stop dreaming,
- Stop prancing about the woods.
- It's not beseeming.
- What is it about the woods?
- Back to life, back to sense, back to child, back to husband.
- No one lives in the woods!
- There are vows, there are ties,
- There are needs, there are standards,
- There are shouldn't and shoulds.
- Why not both instead?
- There's the answer, if you're clever.
- Have a child for warmth, and a baker for bread,
- And a prince, for.. whatever..
- Never! It's these woods!
- Face the facts, find the boy, join the group, stop the giant--
- Just get out of these woods.
- Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't..
- Just a trick of the woods!
- Just a moment,
- One peculiar passing moment.
- Must it all be either less or more,
- Either plain or grand?
- Is it always 'or'?
- Is it never 'and'?
- That's what woods are for:
- For those moments in the woods...
- Oh, if life were made of moments,
- Even now and then a bad one--!
- But if life were only moments,
- Then you'd never know you had one.
- First a witch, then a child, then a Prince, then a moment--
- Who can live in the woods?
- And to get what you wish, only just for a moment--
- These are dangerous woods..
- Let the moment go..
- Don't forget it for a moment, though.
- Just remembering you had an 'and,' when you're back to 'or,'
- Makes the 'or' mean more than is did before.
- Now I understand--
- And it's time to leave the woods.