Once / Michael Rosen

Once there was a boy who 
wanted to be beautiful 
and a girl who 
wanted to be strong. 
The boy was worried 
that he wasn’t beautiful enough. 
The girl was worried 
that she wasn’t strong enough. 

One day they went out to seek 
their fortunes. 

But there was nothing. 

There was nowhere for them to go 
Nothing for them to see 
No one for them to meet. 
There was no story for them 
to be in. 
They couldn’t even meet each other. 
You may have thought they had already met 
but they hadn’t 
because there wasn’t anywhere 
for them to meet. 

Until you came along 
and decided that you can do 
something about it.