Play For Today: Inspiration Close To Home

5 February 2009 | 11:02 PM

Even though I get to see my kids practically every day, it often seems like they’ve grown up in the time I’m away during the day at work. Tonight was a good instance of this phenomenon, with both of my children seeming like little adults when just hours before they’d been goofballs. Anyway, color me inspired:

Fingertips

Every day your world expands,
your empires of independence
subsume old challenges
and make them old hat.

Every day your discoveries mount,
your rivers of interest
flood over their banks and crest
where imagination and reality become one.

Every day I hold your hands fast in mine
and wonder if you feel like
I am trying to hold you back,
when really all I want is for you
to drag me along for the ride.

That was either transcendental or completely unintelligible. Given the amount of cold medicine I’ve got coursing through my brain, I’m going to go with the latter. G’night.

Posted by Andy in Play For Today