The Horse

The ground shakes
The stars spin
Eyes like flames
That tickle the earth
Mane and tail
Laughing with the breeze
Flying sets a mind at ease

He is powerful yet curious
Focused yet playful
Everything but nothing yet
And this horse means so much to me
But I haven’t met him yet

We will gallop the earth
Fly over the trees
Sail through the clouds
And the seven seas
We will become one and nothing will hold us back

We are golden
We will fight
We will try our hardest
With all our might
Some days may bring us down
But in the end we will persevere
And hold our heads high

One day we are proper and impeccable
On top of the world
The next we are contained and mysterious
As people wonder
“What will they do next?”
Then we are soaring over fields
Sailing through woods
A confident gleam in our eyes

An inseparable bond
Stronger than nails
He makes me laugh
I make him smile
I can confide in him
For he always listens

And as the world passes by
We will sit and wonder why
God blessed us with each other.

—Tessa Doherty (age 12), Simon Atherton Row