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Round the Corner

Lightly do the carefree cries of kids carry on the wind
As they cavort in the quad during recess.
It is in such moments their trails of glory find expression
While I struggle to remember vestiges of mine.

All too soon the insidious worm will enter their souls,
 Cankering their innocence.
Should we envy them their guiltlessness
Or should we forewarn them
Of the pitfalls ahead?

Who will take the blindfold from their eyes 
To expose them to the stark impersonality of life?
Nay, let them clutch at the straws of family,
Friendship and hope
Where the excesses of bitterness  can be softened
Unless betrayal removes even that.

So I listen to the faint  bursts of vocal energy
And pray that their lives 
Will not run crooked
But where they do
The straight path will soon be found.

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Denis Bruce

Date: 11/19/2015 12:21:00 PM

Let me thank you,Bev, for your insightful comments.Very often,indeed most often, the reader sees in a piece of poetry what the writer did not explicitly discern but may have understood dimly .Only in the reading does a poem take on a meaning .So a poem belongs to its readership ,even although it sprang from the writer's unconscious.