04-23-2013, 03:29 PM
From Boy to Man
As green new buds unfurled beside the trail,
which led to warmed snows flowing over shale,
long falling for the spring’s new tides, we feigned
to see the trees, but loved seclusion gained
from out my mother’s prudish grasp, grown frail.
So long in mind have I renewed this tale,
while raising she who bloomed from leaves grown stale,
in which we bed, in love no one restrained,
as green new buds unfurled.
Atop the fount you danced along loose shale,
and showed the wilds you’d rent clear through my veil,
to know the world of men, and had attained
your passage to their ranks. My heart was pained
by fear when then you slipped to air, and flailed
as green new bud, unfurled.
As green new buds unfurled beside the trail,
which led to warmed snows flowing over shale,
long falling for the spring’s new tides, we feigned
to see the trees, but loved seclusion gained
from out my mother’s prudish grasp, grown frail.
So long in mind have I renewed this tale,
while raising she who bloomed from leaves grown stale,
in which we bed, in love no one restrained,
as green new buds unfurled.
Atop the fount you danced along loose shale,
and showed the wilds you’d rent clear through my veil,
to know the world of men, and had attained
your passage to their ranks. My heart was pained
by fear when then you slipped to air, and flailed
as green new bud, unfurled.