Old Man Folks Story

• Kirsty Mobbs, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2016

Here the old man folk would sit
Drinking his beer sip by sip
Reading his book one page at a flip
Eating his crackers and dip.
Thee, did we know old man folk
Had a story to tell beyond the trees of oak
It was calm and Peaceful
But brutal and lethal.
he, once a boy now a man
old man folk brought up by his nan
He had no idea he was adept to supremacy
With this he carried a powerful family legacy.
But with this inheritance brought pain
When turned 90 he will become deaths claim
This is why old man folk sits in silence
He is waiting for deaths defiance.