True North

Meg Hutchinson

She went to see him and they flew paper airplanes

The mad wind tore at their paper wings

And they flew like swallows

They fell like kamikazees

They crashed, but they did not burn

And everthing had changed but nothing seemed different

She did not know how close to stand



She said can't you see we're moving in all directions?

Can't you feel the pull?

But you're still the one by which I chart my course

Your still my, still my true north



My sister was seven and I'd already turned eleven

We saved cereal box coupons and sent away for kites

And we took 'em to the back fields and we reeled 'em

free

The mad wind took hers instantly and put it in

a tree

And everything had changed but nothing seemed

different

And we did not know that he would have to leave



We said can't you see we're moving in all directions

Can't you feel the pull?

They were still the ones by which we'd chart our

course

Still our, still our true north



My mother and father, they drove up together

To the district court on the twenty-fourth of May

After raising three daughters

After thirty years as best friends

They smiled as they read irreconcilable differences

Everything had changed, but nothing seemed different

So they took each other out to dinner



He said can't you see we're moving in new directions

Can't you feel the pull?

But you're still the one by which I chart my course

Still my, still my true north