The Sails of Child's Play

Of wonders lost and loves foretold from lands
untread by human feet -- of which would lie
untouched, unharmed, unseen by human eye –
of sentence served, of lives but lost, of man's
beleaguered pains, those tender minds make plans.
To captain ships with shipsmen full, to die
for country brave, to fight for freedom's cry,
the sails of child's play guided by their hands.
With hostile storms of dreams and loves naïve
embellished by romantic circumstance,
these children find their fancies entertained.
When find themselves against the rocks besieged,
then cling they to their unrestrained romance
that finds them by their fancy e'er sustained.

                                    -- Friday, May 12, 2006