FOR THE TIMES

You said too little

Or said too much

Something held you back

And the truth didn’t come out

You missed the opportunity

Or never even saw it

One of the most beautiful things in the world is hearing a child’s first question. As a parent, it fills us with pride and we think our little one might possibly be the most amazing person in the world.

I remember your laugh

When we were out

How the whole room

Would fill with that sound

A baby smiled at me the other day in the grocery store.

In the ambulance ride

With my son in the back

Victim to his own behavior

In the emergency room

As the doctor tells him

That he can ask me to step out