It takes cheerful resignation

Heart and humility

That's all it takes

A cheerful person told me

Nobody's harder on me than me

How could they be

And, nobody's harder on you than you



Betsy's blue

She says-"Tell me something good!"

You know I'd help her out if I only could

Oh, but sometimes the light

Can be so hard to find

At least the moon at the window--

The thieves left that behind



People don't know how to love

They taste it and toss it

Turn it off and on

Like a bathtub faucet

Oh sometimes the light

Can be so hard to find--

At least the moon at the window--

The thieves left that behind



I wish her heart

I know these battles

Deep in the dark

When the spooks of memories rattle

Ghosts of the future

Phantoms of the past

Rattle, rattle, rattle

In the spoon and the glass



Is it possible to learn

How to care and yet not care--

Since love has two faces

Hope and despair

And pleasure always turns to fear

I find--

At least the moon at the window--

The thieves left that behind

At least they left the moon

Behind the blind

Moon at the window