Will we really control all…
both master and maid and work and trade and friendship and love and truth
are we really ready to lasso the moon
to grab Life by her neighing mane,
ride off into sunsets of applause,
as one whose mind once set
spurs Life into somersaults of victory
obeying our every command-
a once wild thing
humbly eating sugar cubes out of our hands?
will we make sure Hickory Dickory and Dock
guard our moments manfully from
churning oceans and earthquakes
and all manner of hidden things
which ought not swarm about
like Ms. Muffet’s spiders
yet do
will we make sure the common pimple never cripples
the power of our dreams?
or bitten by Life’s neighing teeth
will we fall from lofty saddles
stardust tickling horse ribs as she stamps about our head…
then ducking,
dodging
hooves which rain upon us
as we lay
in puddles of hurricanes and shadows of deaths and unemployment and false wealth and unfaithfulness and riots and hatred and every kind of broken hope
brag
about all we will make of Life
as though she were a sport to be chained
to a hitching post…
or will we open our mouths
to pray
and gentle ourselves,
allow Life to tumble about hills
and grow fat in lush patches of green
ask to ride bareback with her
in the wind ?
I love the extended metaphor and the allusions to childhood verses. We cannot control time but we can ride it into the sunsets of our lives and make do with what time gives us. Awesome writing, Kae!
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:)… thanks so much… as I grow older it seems it comes to this.. that the dream of any such control is an illusion… have a wonderful weekend:)
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🙂 Am happy to say it is the same here, Kae. Your smile and beautiful words make the weekend better. Thank you. And you are most welcome 🙂 Have a beautiful weekend my writing friend!! 🙂
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Wonderful poem Kae,
We should pray and share positive energy over the world. That is all what we can do 🙂
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Hi Ben:).. thanks so much :).. have a wonderful weekend 🙂
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Just putting it out there…but, when you publish I propose that this WONDERFUL piece be featured in your top ten. It’s complex, but accessible – and I loved it 💕
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:).. thanks so much
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I love the imagery and use of words. 💞
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Thank you:)
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