David Walker Poet Free verse

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A Walk On Shallow Waters

A Walk on Shallow Waters
David J Walker

We are wrapped in paper and twine 
A perfect package on the outside
Left on the stoop of an irony 

Gathered together we are 
with candles and cake 

We are a year older and celebrate 
With feelings that need not be explained

We are one
	We are two
		We are three and more
And 65
just as well 
we could be one thousand 

We came not knowing the language
And fumbled with the implications of 
important customs that
mentors took great pains and 
extended time to explain

We learn not to laugh at the 
Paradox of platitudes invented for
special occasions

We hear each sound 
cued in hues  
of confused colors 

We see each virtue as it's on vice 

We celebrate the celebrities of 
Our own making

We walk on shallow waters 
Unaided

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