ohhhh------to stand
and take your place
rise up to your full height on
tipitoes
on tiny blue shoes
hang on for dear life
as you peer into the grown-up world
with those round blue blue eyes and half smile
and soon you will walk among us
(run most likely)
but where will you run to?
what do you see that you want?
some would say
stay down
crawl slowly and avert your eyes
from the tall stormy world of darkness
but it’s in every cell of your being
in your fat fingertips clutching the furniture
in your short jumpy legs that lift lift lift
in your synaptic brain that absorbs everything
at the speed of a hummingbird
you have to rise and announce your presence
and we applaud
knowing your playful presentness
can only make us better
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