Thursday, May 28, 2015

Judgments

 
Dreamer!
 
You’re a dreamer! Boy! Never be worthwhile good
If I focused my mind to it, bet that then I could
To care what others think of me? I should?
If it mattered to a dreamer, then surely I would
Go ahead and hang me; just spare the lying hood
 
 
The lad’s daddy shook his head, the boy was useless, he felt
Needs to taste the leather stinging bite of the old man’s belt
 
 
Mom’s patience rivaled time she spent in her garden of flowers
The gentle boy just needed love, for that she held the power
 
 
Sheltered her son as best she could from his father’s wrath
With his color-palette painted words leading on a fantasy path
 
 
“What good is that” her husband’s exacerbated query. "What a waste!”
“His deep emotion’s passionate,” Mom offered, “He shows great taste.”
 
 
You’re a dreamer! Boy! Never be of worthwhile good
If I focused my mind to it, bet that then I could
To care what others think of me? I should?
If it mattered to a dreamer, then surely I would
Go ahead and hang me; just spare the lying hood
 
 
To the military for shaping, maybe they’ll make a man of him
Soon filled out the uniform, sang and lived the Battle Hymn
 
 
Jumped proud from twenty thousand feet, felt cool dry desert air
White canopy floating down, searching tracer bullets errant flare
 
 
His brave Lieutenant took a hit as he scrambled for cover in the sand
The “Dreamer”-hero saved a life with pressure from his steady hand
 
 
Brave man allowed a dreamer-thought of Mom’s fragrant rose-red petals
As some General pinned to his proud chest two bravery-clustered metals
 
 
You’re a dreamer! Boy! Never be of worthwhile good
If I focused my mind to it, bet that then I could
To care what others think of me? I should?
If it mattered to a dreamer, then surely I would
Go ahead and hang me; just spare the lying hood
 
 
Never my concern, what others might think of me
When challenge knocks, then all shall clearly see


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