picture window

Picture Window

A boy looks out of a window,
What picture does he see?
Does he look for a rainbow
Or the remains of poverty?
Does he search for sunshine
Or does he curse the rain?
Do his hopes climb like a vine
Or do they shrivel dry in pain?
We can never know what he will see,
Who knows how his world is?
We can never know what he can be,
His thoughts and dreams, they are his.
No one can take what's inside away
They try to break him, crush the pride
But they won't steal his hope, try they may
They are his dreams to share or to hide.
Boy looking out of a window
I pray that you can see
The brightness of a rainbow
Instead of dark misery.