This is my place, here
I was born and here I stayed
tree, mountain, rock in the storm
Clouds flee
from the wind of time
but I'm steady, I know what it's like
My father cut me
and put me athwart the wind
like a ship's mast
under large sails, anchors
deep into the bottom, firm
like the Horse of Marken
My sons are stubborn
I have learned from it
I must be strict
if need be, beat my wife
ignore what she means well
and curtail her freedom
for free mothers make sons free
to think that new ideas
sail faster than the wind
But a man knows better
It is the beginning of the end
if he deson't end every beginning
Poem 2027 Amsterdam, 2019-01-13 Je maintiendrai (I will maintain) is the motto of William of Oranje (1533-1584) and the kingdom Netherlands (since 1815) Collection:Short Sermons Keyword:Power: Keyword:Holland%