Wild And Willful by John Albert Harris published on 2017-04-27T16:43:23Z Tenor: Andrés Peñalver "Wild and Willful" by Nevada Lozano Once We were wild and willful We were fame-seekers, fortune-hunters Recklessly chasing frontiers, Thrilled and enthralled by The violent whimsy of the world Sails unfurled, We cut across vast, Turbulent oceans in search of Unspoiled land Unsoiled sand Now We travel in uncompromising lines, Plot our lives on narrow graphs Once verdant fields Lie laced and latticed with cement, Transformed Into the rigid grid Of city streets, which we navigate With all the spontaneity Of beads on an abacus Once You were wild and willful Racked with wrath, Prompted by some vague, Unearned, unlearned bitterness To cut a path Through the forests of your future, To surge forward with the surf, Claiming a virgin shore Now You travel in uncompromising lines To precise points on a finite plane, Having grown weary And wary of the dangers Of frontier life Flanked by snarling regrets, Flecked with a dismal drizzle, You stand, A weather-withered monument To the person you once were Genre Art Song - Tenor