Saturday, November 30, 2024

This World's Valentine

What can we surmise
About this world's aspirations
Its perennial adolescence
Its struggles to survive
If left to its own devices
On this lovely fall morning
A few years ago my neighbor's child
All he could do was scream
And now I overhear him say
'Poppa, Poppa, look I...'
One more I in the world
With its pressing needs and joys
And a smile to stop time
With each new word

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