Remembering My Brother in Law Jack
I have been Remembering My Brother in Law Jack this week, we lost him two years ago. He was a wonderful story teller, and I would like to share with you here on Active Rain some of his work. When we were still in college I typed some of his early work, oh how I wish I had made and kept copies of them, they were very funny. Please accept one of his works:
THE LION IN THE TREE
The greatest fear I've ever know
Was the lion in the tree,
The one between the house and barn
That only I could see.
He was never there during the day
Only appeared at night,
And when you're only ten years old
A Lion is a fright.
He never growled of showed his teeth
Just followed with his eyes,
I would gulp and try to swallow
Fear stifing my cries.
Being there at night when I'd go out
I thought someday he'd leap,
I knew he would for many times
I'd seen it in my sleep.
If my legs had only moved
As fast as my heart did beat,
I would never have worried
About being some lion's meat.
I learned a secret late one night
That kept lions from eating man,
I would never have to fear
If I whistled as I ran.
In lost wisdom of my youth I know
There was no lion in the tree,
Because lions don't attack at night
It must have been a creature from the sea.
Jack A. Archambault
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