With The Bell

while in classroom they were with the bell his mind some place else dwelled where rafts of white on blue set sail nimbus grew in mountain swell. let them all be in that room pursue wisdom in blackboard gloom he won't go in that pursuit when world outside called his feet. he would breathe the endless sky chase rainbow and butterfly in shade of tree find sweetest dream more than it was not for him. he would sit by that placid lake in its ripples' lullaby half awake hug the wind run wild sunburned leave classroom lessons remain unlearned.