Childhood

Written on a napkin while watching my children play at Chuck E. Cheese's. . .

  Childhood

 

A time of delight in

      crawling through holes

      while adults are trying

      to fill them up!

 

A time of approaching

      everyone they see to get

      to know them, while

      adults are avoiding as

      many as possible . . .

 

A time of trying everything once

      while adults are addicted

      to the same things

      day after day.

 

A time when a ‘rude’ sound

      is cause for hilarity

      while the nearby adults

      blush profusely!

 

A time when words

      are not always available yet,

      yet adults are choosing

      from among too many. . .

 

A time when sleep is simply

      for resting an exhausted body

      in order to joyfully move into another day,

      while the adult uses it to escape the day. . .

 

A time of unabandoned delight

      and wonder, while adults

      abandon dreams . . .

      and wonder why.

 

A time to learn from

      their adults " and for

      their adults to

      learn from them!

 

-Jo-

4/1/89

Chuck E. Cheese’s

Syracuse, NY