The Watercress Pond

12 Oct

They played loves game in a watercress pond
made ports and ships and boats

built home-safe harbours where dreamboats rest
secure from coming storms.

Used diamond mud from crystal streams
shared the sounds with tinted whales

these brothers bound by childhood dreams
no wasted thoughts - life’s maelstrom gale.

Swift passing-time of shifting-sands
laid waste their dreams and best laid plans

the brothers grew from boys to men
lived their lives apart.

Redemption comes to one - revealed
soft dappled lanes her golden fields

a man returned - home-safe again
his brother gone -

but she remains.

Art Johnstone

This Indifferent life