Jackson Brown’s Song, “Somebody’s Baby” and You
“Well, just look at that girl with the light coming up in her eyes.”
(From the song Somebody’s Baby, sung by Jackson Brown, 1982)
If you are a woman reading this poem here and now,
whether you are seventeen or seventy-seven, or older,
this heartfelt poem is dedicated to you along with
the song lyric about the lights coming up in her eyes.
I believe no matter your age or your trials or your situations those wondrous womanly lights are still coming up in you.
And if you’re seventy-seven, gray-haired, or older,
and those lights are no longer shining as bright as they were in your younger seasons and yesteryears —
I’ve no doubt those lights are still in you and will brighten again with your ultimate liberation into the sunlit afterlife where you will be born anew, resplendently blooming, like sunflowers reborn gloriously in the springtime sunshine
And if you are seventeen, oh how those lights shine in your eyes.
Oh how they are so amazingly fresh and radiantly bright.
I hope no matter what you face in this uncertain, complicated life those lights never go out and keep coming up in you.
Bob Boyd