A Greenhouse Fable (Greenhouse Fables)

                                                               (David Friedman/ Judy Niemack)

 

In a garden, a house made of glass

Tell a story to help make the hours pass,

I remember the one with the King

And the time he set out

To find his way home.

 

In a castle, there once lived a King,

With his servants, his throne, and a crown of gold,

Every morning he woke from a dream

Where an old man would tell him

To find his way home.

One day he rode past the gates,

And he turned to look back,

but the castle was gone

And no one was there;

Only silence and wind blowing.

Then he heard something;

Someone was calling him.

Through the mist came the man from the dream,

And he said, “Now you must begin your journey homeward.”