Music and Lyrics by Alex Richard Commins. (c) 2011 Richard Commins ASCAP. This is my song to JoAnna, or rather, youth, who was very timid and afraid to take advantage of moving across the country to go to college. The Read more
Music and Lyrics by Alex Richard Commins. (c) 2011 Richard Commins ASCAP. This is my song to JoAnna, or rather, youth, who was very timid and afraid to take advantage of moving across the country to go to college. The first verse is the timid JoAnna speaking, and the remainder is age (me) responding and telling her no to let opportunities in life pass you by, but rather to take hold of them: "you don't want to say, in your life, that I wish I had done that too." Thus, this is a "conversation poem," a phrase which I have borrowed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge which he used on his poem The Nightingale.