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