Childhood songs
I came into the world
before there were words
before there were shoelaces
before dry ice
Childhood sang songs
reciting, memorizing, gaining mastery
kittens, toy boats, chicka-dee-dee calls
don't touch dry ice
Songs I once knew, I would hear them again
arithmetic was easy
I think further now
but forget
What once seemed simple
the difference between plus and minus:
really doesn't matter
getting dressed was good exercise for later
School had disadvantages
one can learn something for life anyplace
streams become rivers that run to the sea
mermaids riding dolphins sing under the stars
Grains of sand in the hour glass
accumulate below what once formed above
time is a lesson:
missed, premature, correct
My father said don't touch dry ice
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