The Children

from Send My Roots Rain by Joseph Bottum

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The Children
reimagining “Sir Lionel and the Boar” (c. 1650)

I met a girl all dressed in black.
Comes a cold wind, comes a dark rain.
On empty walks she played at jacks
and touched her toe to every crack.
Comes a cold wind, comes a dark rain.

So sad to play alone, I said.
But she replied, My friends are dead.
I play with ghosts all dressed in red.

Can’t you see the boy who waves?
A place for me he always saves
to sit with him among the graves.

The grass that sways along the hill,
the whispered sigh, cold evening’s chill:
The world is filled with children still.

But one day they will turn for home,
to seek in hearts of human stone
the reason that they died alone.

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from Send My Roots Rain, released August 21, 2014

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