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Anchoring
November 26, 2017
I wanted to be a sailor
To catch and use the breeze
Learn tragic wrongs,
Victory’s songs,
And all these things they’d seen
I wanted to be a sailor
World’s boundaries washed aside
Islands unknown
Horizon’s glow
And stalwart mate, the sky
I wanted to be a sailor
But they’ve no certainties
In hostile lands
Lonely bones land
And who will mourn for thee?
Two feet on the ground
I’m turning around
A sailor I shall
not be.
And a sailor I shall not be.
© Kailey E., Crownsville, MD
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