CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'

I have to admit it wasn't my dream
to live in sunshine endlessly
to drive on freeways with no destinations
to eat the fresh fruits of nature's core
every day of every month of every year

But it promised a new start
a chance to grow and learn and become
and I went as a young woman
and returned quite old
and hardened and disillusioned
and angry and detached

And I sat down to contemplate
the two years I squandered
in that the beautiful state in the west
with it's claim to be the very best

At changing the meaning of time.