As a Child
Poem for section of the same name in All That Breathes
As a child…
I could be the sky
And marshal clouds
And sparkling stars
To glow through ME
Harnessed to instant call!
As a child…
I could brush the fog
‘Til it shone like a wedding veil –
Under it I’d marry
Blind ones to deaf ones
And then let the sun out!
As a child…
I could crawl deep down
And nestle
In the earth’s tangled heart
And…become…one…by…one
The roots of Different trees
And we would shake hands with
Each other!…As a child.
By: Sylvia Major