Not Yellow Brick

A poem, left behind, from last year, a little Sunday School prayer

Mary Cassatt  The Boating Party

Paving the Way

The admonition echoed

in footsteps leading astray

walking through the hell of segregated piety

of the garden, picking  grapes with god

the forbidden fruit just that

needed and heartfelt

Another mother, casting anchor close to home

Assailed her darling doting daughter

With a wind of words, a chanty

“I don’t want to take the wind out of your sails.”

Oh, Hades road was paved

with bloods and colors not like ours

from faraway lands, exotic

or local, convenient right next door

Not hidden in the deep dark woods,

a witch, a wolf

to seduce our basket of goodies

All you/we needed was a nudge,

A hug, affection strong

A simple “I love you”

Admonition seized the day

The devil of the lord

Keeping your angel far, far away

9/5/18, revised 7/20/2019 ©James M. Frase White