His book's title on the subject sounded right <br />The letter written in the East <br />To the professor living in the West <br />'Permission of instructor required' <br />Even the siege of his office had failed <br />The good professor was popular <br />The class was full <br />There was a long waiting list <br />It was not the first time I had been licked. <br /> <br />So graciously withdrawing from my siege <br />Signed up for something a little less <br />That still kept me in the great man's light <br />Second day of class a little shoulder tap <br />'... I want you to be in my class...' <br />Thus began true tutelage of the professor <br />Who would claim me more than any other. <br /> <br />Now I am old and he is gone <br />Yet I, still strangely driven to make song <br />This strange thing that brought me to him <br />There is something to our fate, <br />The world I fear may mock, <br />But I believe and trust and will not debate.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-siege-a-first-memory-of-robert-c-leslie/
