Turn Aside Poem by William Kofoed

I take the time

to simply be

sit and write

let my thoughts

just run free

I know that they

want certain words

on pathways narrow

they want to be

and as I try

their path to walk

my thoughts will not

for them there go

they turn aside

across the fields go

seeking places

to be free

even then they

darkness find there

where light may not be

where joy might be lost

till clouds do part

and light shines through

bringing joy to words

that they want to hear



my thoughts run free

where they will go

and will not turn

aside for me

I can write

only them

only those

there for me