Army of Ink Rock The Boat

 

 

Rock The Boat .

Rock, rock, rock the boat hear the grownups scream.   Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily – now we’re heard and seen.

This little soldier tells the story of speaking up and sticking up for herself rather than keeping quiet, conforming – not rocking the boat.  Maybe she’s always avoided rocking the boat because it was easier to just keep the peace, continue being whoever everyone expected and wanted her to be.  Now I think she’s ready to break away from ‘how it’s always been’.  Experience has taught her that things might get rough but she’s well equipped to stay afloat.  I’m not certain where she’s going?  Maybe she’ll dive down into the depths of her nautical soul.  Or bob around in the sea pondering her fate.   Do a spot of synchronized swimming.  Paddle to shore and bask on a sunlit island for one.  And maybe the plank she’d always been made to walk for the trouble she caused is now a diving board from which she can launch herself into the unknown – the sea of possibility.   To be continued no doubt ….

 

(Reposted from 2009.  Originally in ‘Rock The Boat’ handmade book.   Now in Clunk & Jam book, 2019)