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Sawhorse

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Their ship is a sawhorse and a couple of boards
With a broom handle mast and tree limb swords.
A t-shirt sail catches a southerly breeze
And their sawhorse ship sails make-believe seas.

They face pirate attacks and tropical storms.
Sail 'round the world in one single morn.
Down comes the sail.  Away go the swords.
A new arrangement of the sawhorse and boards.

Sitting on the sawhorse at each others side.
Two small cowboys on a stagecoach ride.
Eight invisible stallions pull at the reigns
As their sawhorse stagecoach crosses the plains.

Outlaws and Indians don't stand a chance
For on that coach are Butch and Sundance.
The horses set free.  The stage torn apart.
Time for another adventure to start.

Sawhorse in the middle with a board on each side.
Under the sawhorse is where the boys ride.
What is the sawhorse to be this time?
The answer is known as their plane starts to climb.

A sawhorse plane is what the Red Baron meets.
A flying team that he will never beat.
A hurried crash landing.  The plane put away.
It's time to go home and await a new day.

Time takes it toll, the boards are now rotten.
The old sawhorse long since forgotten.
The fun loving boys have grown into men.
Their make-believe world has come to an end.

The fun loving boy still lives in the man.
Given the chance he'll come out if he can.
Sometimes the man gives in to this force.
So please don't laugh if he pets a sawhorse.

Reflections on a boy's childhood
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Ribbon-Candy-Kitten's avatar
this is absolutely amazing, you have a sterling tongue friend