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Mr. Alexander.
When the Clock Strikes Twelve.
Be home, Be home...
Or carriages will into pumpkins turn...
Beware, take care
For wisdom missed means lessons never learned.
The days of cindergirls are gone,
no more of rags and toys
It's slippers made of glass these days
and handsome princely boys.
The fairy godmama is now
a counselor at school
And ugly stepchildren became
the clumsy classroom fool.
Those tiny mice of childhood times
are stallions for your dreams
to pull you through the times ahead
when things aren't what they seem.
When things are less like fairy tales
and more like tales from heck...
and we would cash in all our gold
for just one tiny speck
of magic dust, to weave a spell
and make us young again...
when little girls had little curls
and princes were just friends.
So in the year to come, sweet child,
and other years ahead..
remember well these words I typed
and other words I've said.
Remember it's a great big world,
make of it as you will..
And matter not how grown you get,
you'll be my diamond still...
The coach may turn to pumpkin,
and the stallions back to mice,
and shoes of glass may lose their class
(but aren't those "Jellies" nice...?)
And crowns of jewels upon your head
be pigtails once again..
"oh rue the day", I hear you say...
my grown up younger friend.
But life, it will surprise you
with all it has in store
and oft will be the times that we
wish childhood here once more.
When trying hard to pay the bills,
and stay ahead the pack
we know we must look forward
but it's more fun looking back..
Back to all the younger days,
back to carefree years
back to fun and friendships
and those little tiny fears...
fears that could be wiped away
by rides on daddy's knee,
fears that melted in the sun
as quick as quick can be.
But schoolwork calls, complexions dim,
and friends turn into foes.
And boys, well there's another tale..
(you'll see how that one goes.)
A teenager is someone else,
than you have been before,
a different personality
each day it changes more..
some days for better, some for worse..
but rarely not at all...
it's never quite the same again,
as dancing at the ball....
on Charming's arm, in fairy gown.
with jewels in your hair..
and shoes of glass upon your feet,
and not a single care.
Enjoy the dance, my little one,
enjoy the magic band,
enjoy the whirling fantasy
on some Prince Charming's hand.
Enjoy your youth, for only once
will childhood be your friend,
Enjoy it well and hold it close
it will not come again.
For when the clock strikes twelve.. it runs,
away across the floor..
It takes your dreams - before its coach
is crystal glass no more.
It leaves you feeling breathless
and aghast at it's escape..
and holding one glass slipper
from which memories to make.
And though you search your whole life long,
it's length and breadth complete...
your shoe of glass will never fit
upon another's feet.
It's youth that disappears at twelve,
that runs into the night...
So live it fullest every day
and try to hold on tight.
And if you're very fortunate,
so many years from now..
the shoe of glass left from these years
will always show you how
to dream, to dance, to ride behind
some stallions made from mice.
And you will be forever young..
(great magic happens twice).
And when you look into your past,
and gaze back at your dreams..
may all you wished for now, be yours..
and life be as it seems.
This wizard wish I give to you,
on this most special day..
And I can make it all come true..
("and how is that???" - you say)
I'll tell you, little child of mine
I'll tell you how I can..
"I'm not a very good wizard,
but I am a very good man.."
And, in that role, I hold your childhood
ever in my mind,
each smile and scrape and fantasy
each dream you'd care to find..
I hold them all, they'll never fade...
They'll never go away.
I know each second,
every tick 'n' tock along the way.
So when the clock strikes twelve,
and you feel childhood slip from sight..
fear not the pumpkin, or the mice...
or rags or dead of night..
For every dream you have is mine,
I've catalogued them all.
You'll always be the princess...
and your life will be the ball.
And handsome princes by the score
will line to kiss your hand...
And they may love as great they can
yet never understand.
What magic lies upon their lips,
when they just speak your name...
and I shall smile at you, and wink
and love you just the same.
But I will know for certain
what the best can only guess.
For I was THERE when you were small
and that's my life's success.
And I shall be a happy man
forever and a day...
just to be your daddy
and to still be here to say,
"I love you, precious jewel of mine,
a love that's here to say...
I hope you have the very bestest
number twelve birthday."
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