camp_koch_1990Camp Koch 1990
On top of a high hill
sits a place where I once went
a camp for the handicapped
where the fun never was spent
So many memories inside of my mind
of the councilors so kind
stopping to help out for a summer
and giving a little bit of themselves
But Camp Koch was not just
full of special people
it was a whole lifetime
placed inside of two weeks
You see I grew up there on the hill
turning from an insecure child
to a man with some talents
and faith in his abilities
A whole lifetime of memories
is what I could write down
how one could see so many trees
passed the nearest towns
I fell in love there
with a red haired girl
but unlike Charlie Btown
I could talk to her
The beauties of nature
I learned at camp
the simple pleasure of birds
singing in a summer's day
I looked down at the Ohio River
many times just thinking
of what it would be like
if I followed its course
Oh yes a whole lifetime
of what might have beens
am I happy in my course
I am but that is life
A young crippled boy at
Camp Koch for the Handicapped
I miss it and its call
of peace and adventure
Paul Vernon Deffendall
May 26, 1990
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