the younger children

THE YOUNGER CHILDREN

Design: Joe and Kenlyn Butters

Photos: Joe Butters

Poem: Joe Butters

TURN ON SPEAKERS

KENNETH

Each day the light is a bit dimmer in me eye

KENLYN

• The Sky has never been so blue

KYLE

• What I say is so true

KRIS

• Take in what I say to you

KYCEL

• Let me help you see

KYLE, KRIS AND KYCEL

that you can be

KENLYN

Anything you want to be

KENNETH

• Come set and listen to me

KYLE

• I have so much to tell thee

KRIS

• I do so with great glee

KYCEL

• I feel it to be my destiny

Grandpa

• A storyteller I Be

KYCEL

• I pass the wisdom of Yore

KYLE

• To each of the young

KENNETH

• As from door to door

KRIS

• Hear me now

KENLYN

Tis of your life I speak

KYCEL

• I hold the knowledge ye seek

KYLE

• Right here in this ole beak

KENNETH

• I speak of the past

KRIS

• I speak of wisdom vast

KENLYN

• What I know will last

KYCEL

• As it has for all the past

KYLE

• Go forth with the lore

KENNETH AND KYLE

• You receive at my knee

KRIS

• Conquer the world

KENLYN

• As it was meant to be

KYCEL

• If I make thee see

KYLE

• My reason for being

KENNETH AND KYLE

• Is within thee