This Poem was Submitted By: Edwin John Krizek On Date: 2002-02-01 01:09:03 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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At the Lake In the Summer

At one end of the lake there was a weeping willow tree. Behind it a dirt path that led to  a hollow thicket under the tree. My friends and I played a game far away from parents and the older kids we ran naked through the hollow under the weeping willow. The game made sense to us, although I suppose it looked strange  to my father as he strode up the dirt path toward the hollow calling my name. A dozen naked children scurried for their clothes as my father pushed his way through the cover of leaves, striding, striding calling out my name. Intruding into our lives, my life, in a place  he had no right to be my father pushed his way through the protective coat of green leaves. Striding, striding, calling out my name. The others ran away and I was left alone and  trembling in my nakedness  while he strode and called out for me. He could not see me.  What made him look for me there? Striding, calling out my name my father emerged from the underbrush as I pulled up my pants. I smiled sheepishly at him  and he looked confused. I went with him out of the thicket. What made him look for me there? Today I remember him lying in his coffin with the pancake makeup on his face and want to ask, “Oh Daddy, is it so wrong for a child to  run naked through the woods?”

Copyright © February 2002 Edwin John Krizek


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