The Wallflowers Don’t Bloom is a message I imparted to my children. Life is just too short of a game to let anything sideline you from playing it. I wrote The Wallflowers Don’t Bloom for them, but they are not the first I have imparted the message to. The message it contains is one I have always told myself and have done my best over the years to heed.

The Wallflowers Don’t Bloom

9.15.2011

Father to son

Time to go and become

The evolution of yourself…

That makes you the only one

Father to son

Step up to the plate now, don’t run

Don’t leave your life up on the shelf

For its shelf-life’s unknown

Live your life before it’s gone

It’s far too precious

To be left all alone…

Make it yours

(chorus)

Step up…step up to the plate and swing

Give your life…give your life your everything

For, anything less

Will have you miss the bus

Left to watch life pass you by

Left with regrets you confess

As you sit and reflect

You stop and ask yourself, “Why?”

Father to daughter

Earth, wind, fire and water

All the elements are there…

For happiness and laughter

Father to daughter

Earth, wind, fire and water

Spread your wings now; take air

Over the tears, through the laughter

Make the years in life matter

Make’m yours, Make’m real

Days to hours

Make’m feel, make it your time to steal

For you’re already a flower

Petals to perfume

Be the kind that you water

‘Cause, though they fill up the room

The wallflowers, they don’t bloom

They just fill up the room

The wallflowers don’t bloom