My Captain

Dear Walt, my precious poet Your words do inspire, your pen tells every human’s truth Every word so admired, it shares your journey to recite With steadfast care, each thought longstanding So we can follow your path of broad, robust and vast Understanding from the knowledge of history that leads us all Dear captain, to each of our possible destinies In our hearts, minds and timeless lives! To turn each elegy into a flower’s song so gloriously told Exquisite pluck and promises of the scene you create Has substance so bold, you discorrupt the body To save our mortal souls and bring us our redemption For human quests unfold from where your center thrives Emanating so to bequest our needful dreaming within As our eyes read your masterpiece deriving to dare A footpath for our hearts and lives! Dear beloved Walt, revived in a summer’s blade of grass You know the story well my friend from our beginnings And from our past, of cradles endlessly rocking We grow with barefoot senses to touch the earth In places where few can go, we are alone and fatal Yet your faith does shine over the fences of things we cannot be So enraptured, endured in our minds to set us free We find your verity and kindness, our lives assured! February 22, 2021