Trust
by Steve Shanks
30"x40" oil on canvas

 
NOT trust you, dear? Nay, 't is not true. 
  As sailors trust the shifting sea 
From day to day, so I trust you. 
  They know how smooth the sea can be; 
And well they know its treachery
  When tempests blow; yet forth they thrust 
Their ships, as in security. 
  They trust it, dear, because they must. 
 
By Hannah Parker Kimball   


all images copyright steve shanks 2007 ... all rights reserved