The Changeling -
Second Place (short form), 2008 Poetry Contest
Robert Borski
Poetry
Fantasy
Sometimes you simply
can't go back.
The Atlanteans know this.
So do the Luciferians.
But when you're the son
of Hob Goodfellow
you still have to try,
because anything is better
than a world like the one
he had been
left behind in like a
cuckoo's egg,
where technology was valued
over magic
and virtue over hex. Even if
he can still
fly, make himself invisible,
or charm
the thong off any mortal lass,
sometimes it
would be nice just to feel
non-Other,
no longer the stranger among
mundanes;
someone who, in fact, did
not have
to act plainly ordinary, but,
uncharmed
to the core, was that and
then some.
Ahead, is that the barrier
thinning?
But once again, not even
changeling
magic can make it so.
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Copyright 2008, Robert Borski. All rights reserved. Robert Borski describes himself as a late-blooming child prodigy. He is the author of two books about Gene Wolfe (Solar Labyrinth, The Long and the Short of It) and lives in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
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