Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau

Author:Peter Manseau [Manseau, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2008-09-16T06:00:00+00:00

We ride life’s waves

as if made of driftwood,

From our roots cut, fallen,

and cast on the deep

How then will we rise

and learn to walk as we should

When we come to the shallows

to search for relief?

I was preparing to move into the inspiring second stanza when I looked up to see what effect my poem was having. To my surprise, there were now not two boys but many—eight? ten?—crowded around me, each in an identical cap. When I looked down, I saw only a miniature mob with dirty faces.

You are water-logged,

drowning,

but fear not, floating youth!

Branches hardened by the ocean

have strength deep within.

The beach beckons with sunshine,

glowing like truth,

The shore will rise to meet

you as the tide rolls in.

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