The Circle Game - Sarah Walk

Yesterday a child came out to wander

And caught a dragonfly inside a jar

Fearful when the sky was full of thunder

And tearful at the falling of a star

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now

Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town

And they say take your time

Take your time it won’t be long now

Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down

And the seasons they go round and round

And the painted ponies go up and down

We’re captive on the carousel of time

We can’t return

We can only look behind from where we came

And go round and round and round

In the circle game

So the years spin by and now the girl is twenty

Though her dreams have lost some grandeur coming true

There’ll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty

Before the last revolving year is through

And the seasons they go round and round

And the painted ponies go up and down

We’re captive on the carousel of time

We can’t return we can only look

Behind from where we came

And go round and round

And go round and round and round

In the circle game

And we go round and round

And we go round and round

And we go round and round

And we go round and round

And we go