Friday, February 17, 2017

learning to conceal




there is a lesson my baby girl

never seem to learn repeating the mistake

betraying her own mischief making me

proclaim: ‘i have eyes at the back too’



she secretly dumps her breakfast

and gives me a hug as if all is well

and she had her full, forgetting i too

have tread that lane in telling my yarn



sooner she will have to learn the art

of concealing fact with a controlled distant

even when urged to traverse that space

before she walks free from her stunts



© henry victor     12.12.2003



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