A Story That Could Be True
\nIf you were exchanged in the cradle and
\nyour real mother died
\nwithout ever telling the story
\nthen no one knows your name,
\nand somewhere in the world
\nyour father is lost and needs you
\nbut you are far away.
\nHe can never find
\nhow true you are, how ready.
\nWhen the great wind comes
\nand the robberies of the rain
\nyou stand on the corner shivering.
\nThe people who go by–
\nyou wonder at their calm.
\nThey miss the whisper that runs
\nany day in your mind,
\n“Who are you really, wanderer?”–
\nand the answer you have to give
\nno matter how dark and cold
\nthe world around you is:
\n“Maybe I’m a king.”
\nWilliam Stafford
\nGoing Over to Your Place: Poems for Each Other
\n(Selected by Paul B. Janeczko, Bradbury Press, New York)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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