Where Children Dare To Believe
sitting on a
new york city stoop
painted red
just below a darkened
railroad apartment
2 bedrooms / 5 people
1069
autumn has fallen
no trees grow within concrete sidewalks
to notice /
winter whispers
long wind rhyme
cold
across a late evening
windows are lit
walking in time
a poet begins his crawl
across my mind
as a boy
doesn’t believe in believing
there is death and war
in my eyes
and so deeply he sighs
long wind rhyme
i sit
lost within a street-lamp
shadow
drifting
light shifting
looking for reason
in a season
where children dare to believe
suddenly
1976
death and war
still a loud echo
in my tries
yet
in my eyes
whispers the breath
of a child
within the shadow
of christmas tree lights
softly bleeding her sighs
in a season
where children dare to believe
in a poet’s find
adrift
within a man’s mind.
-w. jude aher
Copyright © W. Jude Aher | Year Posted 2010
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