Try and Tame

A poem I wrote a few years ago about a children's book I love!

 

 

So take off all the color

Take all the chances from the ground

And I am tired, you can’t help me sleep

So I remain here, awake

Continue to write this night away

Sail this ship a year, underneath my bed

 

All these stories I believe

But if you don’t I won’t cry

Because I can sail away each night

Into my own kingdom

I had earned with my teeth and claws

To make all these things more real

 

So I rule these things to feed their fear

Such wild things

As I’ve dressed myself

So once again I go home

To my bed, and the steaming bowl

Now my mask is off, and I am home

 

We’ll now see, this is how you become king

To rule all the monsters and beasts

To tell them how to believe

And we will leave, as we all do