Watching Pete Seeger

It may not have happened the way it's told,
And he may not have been as saintly.
I choose to believe half,
For half is all I need.

He is a proponent of music,
Folk music from wherever.
A humanist who has fought to defend,
Yet outraged and saddened when his country was the aggressor.

I sat behind the stage at Carnegie Hall
Listened and thought.
Now I see his music
In the pictures of a Polar Bear and a Huskie... hugging.

I see something irrepressible in his smile;
Like those two animals, representing the possible.
Do you see the lighthearted humor?
A 72 year old cynic, with a 90 year old folk hero.