The essence of courage aids against
foreboding,
guiding our subconscious.
With foreboding, they played “Farmer in
the Dell.”
A sensible child, she stood in the
middle.
The five year old girl with an active
imagination
continued the song long after it had
stopped.
Intuitively, she knew more about rhymes
than the average person,
and could predict when they would sing
again.
On warm afternoons, someone would
become the cheese.
She had an inspiration to interpret
their varied meanings, the occasional
slights,
the looks, and the sing-song
“roses are red, violets are blue.”
She knew no fear. Her deep-rooted
sense that all are safe filled her
with optimism—the aspens shook in the
wind,
gazing into the iris of her existence
and fate.
Emily Isaacson
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