Hello Childhood

and your sweet-sweet

ways – when youth

leaned young and innocence

a mark of parent’s love.

Days with mom in the kitchen

learning cookie-magic

and cool dad

throwing a basketball.

Then it’s lipstick and high school

and boys. No longer did

Barbie dolls spend

your time – and much too soon

dating the one

you learned to love--

with marriage and babies

thrilling parents

who’ll always love

their little girl in the sandbox.