Tying your dress shoes in a double knot,
Like an eight-year-old.
Running off the bus and flopping on the couch after school,
Like an eight year old.
Putting together your LEGO early in the morning (and late at night),
Like an eight-year-old.
Sledding down the hill at the back of your friend’s house,
Like an eight-year-old.
Struck down by sepsis,
Like an eight-year-old.
Dying of cancer,
Like an eight-year-old.
Gunned down,
Like an eight-year-old.
Show us how to live like an eight-year-old,
That none may die as an eight-year-old.
