Best Poems Written by James Younger

Child of the Sun

Born to this world in sixty-one
Another child of the sun
I entered in the dead of night
To breathe the air and see the light

Though rooted in the Netherlands
Together we would make a stand
The first son and the third of five
How good it was to be alive

From May until say Labor Day
The sun would call me out to play
So I begin to drink it in
And let it penetrate my skin

I' d climb the tallest tree in sight
Pretending I was taking flight
I'd skin my knee and lick the blood 
And rub the pain away with mud

Referred to as the middle class
Though what it meant I didn't ask
But one thing that was not in doubt
We never had to do without

So it was off to school for me
A place void of fond memories
No Ritalin for remedy
The classroom was like jail to me

The bell meant I had been paroled
My chair the first one getting cold
The clock was now my friend at last
With freedom just beyond the glass

Now entering the junior high
I learned of Lucy In The Sky
While Dylan spoke of rolling stones
My hair grew to my collar bone

The girls were filling out so nice
My studies had to sacrifice
Was told i saw through bedroom eyes
A trait that must be utilized 

The party scene would suit me fine
Preferring whiskey over wine
While using every pick-up line
I broke some hearts as they did mine

My adolescence came and went
I'd say that it was time well spent
But when I think of what should be
I hear the highway calling me

While standing on the overpass
My Chevy Novas' low on gas
I'm always looking to the west
A yearning burning in my chest

As Robert Plant sang "Ramble On"
I couldn't help but sing along
So needing to comply my fix
I stood beside I-Ninety-Six

Had Arizona on the brain
As I looked back at my domain
My mother felt this day would come
But knew where I was coming from

With just the clothing on my rack
My thumb would have to have my back
A mile down I caught a ride 
That brought me to the Great Divide

It took a truck and seven cars
Five days of sun and four of stars
Heard "Free Bird" on the radio
The lyrics tugging at my soul

The last girl in particular
Would take a shine to me for sure
She pulled over and made a nest
And slowly got herself undressed

So leaving at the crack of dawn
We wonder where the night had gone
My destination now in view
We said goodbye as lovers do 

I walked away across the sand
One with the sun as I had planned
My tracks were all I left behind
To follow if you're so inclined

Copyright © James Younger | Year Posted 2015