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[catid] => 1
[aid] => Mick
[title] => the boy from the docks
[time] => 2003-05-03 09:05:00
[hometext] =>
[bodytext] => i asked the old man, down by the docks where salt fills the air, and sun greets first tell me the story, the story of the boy, from the docks the old man laughed, surprised to see, a young man as i, curious to know, about that boy so he sits in his aged chair, and starts off… here’s how the story goes… “there was a youthful boy… who grew up by the docks… his father a man of the sea… and himself bound to take the wheel… that boy was an eager one… a boy who had dreams… far beyond those sails…” “a dream that would take him far… away from the docks he called home… he didn’t know how to explain this… to the old man… that he’d rather take to the frets… as opposed to the sails… how he’d like to sing his own song… not walk in the tracks…” “that little boy… kept his dreams to himself… living in the trail his father left… he yearned to lose the ropes… and pickup some strings… but was too afraid… he’d break his fathers… aging heart” “he kept to himself… this boy… finding what time was free… to follow his road… find a new path… soon his love for… words and melodies grew too much… for him to keep to one soul… “and that day we lost him… his father had lost his little boy no one had seen him since… the sails don’t fly as high… the sea has lost its touch… when we lost that boy from the docks…” that’s when the old man stopped, slowly wiped away a tear, looked up at me, and he said, “that boy was all i had… my only son… my little boy gone… “ [comments] => 2 [counter] => 189 [topic] => 21 [informant] => Feelin_Like_A_Sadfellow [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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