Was Yeats For Real

Was Yeats for real when he told of The Stolen Child That was spirited away into the wilds As he said by a fairy hand in hand Forgive me if I do not understand On what the legendary poet was on about Though literary critics do not leave much doubt That this poetic masterpiece from Mr Yeats As good as the best of other literary greats. A fairy person I have yet to see And the real World out there is real to me And for stolen children fairies I don't blame I'd rather believe a human act of shame. But Yeats about The Stolen Child could sing Imagination is a marvellous thing And his imagination set him on the road to fame And his is a legendary literary name. The poems of Yeats will live forever more And are still widely read beyond his Homeland shore And his imagination gave his words wings to fly And the poet is gone but his poems will never die. But a child stolen by fairies is not real to me For I am shackled by reality And perhaps I am bound for the poetasters hell But such is life and then suppose ah well When Yeats told of a child that a fairy did steal Perhaps his poem to the poet was real He had a vivid imagination something rare And he lived in the World of fantasy out there.