I Am A Child With No Name
I AM A CHILD WITH NO NAME
I am a child, a child with no name
I am the child who held his face with shame
I am the child, the child that runs free
I am the same child, the child that’s you and me.
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I am the child with a mark on my face
Born with an icon that looked on in disgrace
I am that child, too vulnerable to see
That I chose this journey for the sheer growth of me.
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I am a child who longs to be free
Searching here , there and everywhere but what do I see?
I am the child with a smile on my face
One that walks lightly and lives on in God’s grace.
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I am that child, one day who will get to the top
Of the tree of knowledge and long for a stop
At the gate of light and dark, my inner life begins
Oops I caught my ankle and the leaves tore at my shins.
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I am a grown up child, one with no name
Simple, candid, truthful and very much the same
I am a child that swims joyfully in the sea
Waterfalls, lakes and rivers are like kith and kin to me.
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I am a child of light, that looks beyond the pain
Tears are flowing today, but tomorrow smiles again
I am a child that’s blessed and loved beyond my dreams
So much love around me, it drowns out all the screams.
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I am that child who’s learning about the inner me
On a journey of many lifetimes too wonderful it seems
I am child with a memory that was once washed away
Seeking out the clues so they’ll remember and stay.
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I am a child, a child with plenty to say
Skipped along in hop scotch and got on with my work, play
I am that child with feelings caught up in a web
Cords were broken by me, it was only as I said.
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I am a child of God, after all, on my way back
No more cause to find or see my mind’s constant lack
I am a child with everything within my beautiful soul
I came here well equipped for love and not to control!
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I am a child that can and will the universe
A little more faith inside and then abundance opens my purse
I am that child who’s here in the now, singing songs of love
All wrapped up in colours flashed down from above.
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I am that child in Africa who was raised by the village
In Europe I found the winter and awareness of arctic spillage
I am a child in India, with no shoes on my feet
Running around so grounded and knowing that life is sweet.
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I am a child in America caught up in my flag
Loving my vicinity but forgetting my geography bag
I am a child in Australia, wanting to know and see
Where all that history went and what happened to the aborigine
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I am a child in the Caribbean, lapping up the sun
Longing for what’s on the mainland and finding out it’s a con
I am a child in Japan where my family honour is paramount
Easy to learn the language, but God help me if I can’t count!
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I am a child in the middle east trying to find peace
Everywhere I look there’s war and hatred that I long to run to Nice!
I am a child in no man’s land wandering what to do
With all the battles around me, I’ve put on my running shoes
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I am a child in New Zealand, so far from everything
Living in nature’s green and singing empty on the wind
I am that child who’s searching, searching for the sea
All along within, in that spiritual part of me
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I am a child who’s hanging onto nature as it calls
Beckoning from the mountains on the way to Niagara falls
I am a child, a child with no name
Travelling around the world and resting on high plains
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I am that child who stood on the edge of the earth
Found my soul’s beginnings and where it was on the day of my birth.
I am a child, a child with no name
I am a child of the world and infact I am still the same!
24+25/7/06.
Liz Chukwu©
