If only I were older,
I’d speak a foreign tongue.
This would surprise my parents.
They’d wish that I were young.
Probably French, I’m thinking—
The Little Prince is why:
It’s a grown-up Frenchman’s story
That ends with a sad goodbye.
He may have been a grown-up,
But still he understood
How children see much better
What in the world is good.
Most grown-ups are too busy
To understand this quite.
Someday I’ll tell my parents
In French, and I’ll be right.