JESSE & JACK
Two, wild and free
boys in a tree
Apples and a view of the world
More than mere blood
They shared all they could
All that they had in the world
It was two years today
They knelt to pray
At the side of a forest grave
Mother had gone home
And Daddy had gone
To fight in the war
Between the states
As
night began to fall
Shadows
danced on the wall
And
they’d said all there was to say
Standing
tall
As one,
from now on
Was
understood
The winter was gone
The spring was hard won
But small hands are strong
When joined
Jack was now twelve
And Jesse two less
But time in the hollow stood still
Up in a
tree
Picking
apples they see
The
first sight
They’d
seen in years
A man
frail and old
No
shoes, it was told
There
were white streaks
Through
his beard
He grew closer
They wept
They could see from his steps
That Daddy was home from the war
They ran all the way
Their hearts always prayed
This hope that they felt would be real
This hope that they felt now was real
As
night began to fall
Shadows
danced on the wall
And
they’d said all there was to say
Standing
tall
As one,
from now on
Was
understood
Three, wild and free
Up in a tree
Apples and a view of the world
More than mere blood
They shared all they could
All that they had in the world
