Late afternoon

Sunlight falling gently
on my ivory coverlet
Stirring the dust motes into action
helping me to forget

The stillness broken only
But the persistent little sound
Of a young voice calling to me
Asking for a moment to be crowned

Tree time

"Knock, knock!" said the cuckoo
The mouse said "beware"
There's a brand new blue bird
Sitting over there

"So what?" asked the possum
Hanging from high in the tree
There's always some danger
Surrounding me

"Nevermind" chimed the squirrel
From inside his cozy lair
No one is untouchable
So live each day with care

Being 6

I'm reliving all those days
When the world was a great, big
Playful maze

When we spent the summer
tripping through flower fields
Dancing & laughing with no protective shields

A sunlit world where laughter rang
Where fairies played and
Where pixies sang

Blink of an eye

Watching old videos of when you were young
Wondering what happened to everyone
All too quickly you're now hard and soft
Already thinking of your own loft
Gone the days of hugs and cuddles
Of tickles, tantrums & jumping in puddles
Now its friends and girls and boys
The newest fashion & electronic toys
I wish, I wish, I wish again that I had spent
More time & love, and that I'd made a bigger dent

External heart

Come close to me my little heart
And beat inside my hand
As you once did inside of me
Which was so very grand
Now you're part of this bigger world
And we just tag along
To shelter you from showers and rain
So you can see & live no wrong

Music box

Jewel box twinkling bright
A little star in the dark of night
Your music lifts my spirit
Every time that I hear it
It hearkens back to a simpler time
When life was one big nursery rhyme