Persistance

A toddler

With hardly any hair

Huge brown bug eyes

A button nose

And a heart-warming smile

With pearly white teeth

And jolly, full lips

With short arms

And even stubbier fingers

A big round tummy

Some chubby and stubby legs

With little dwarf feet

Running

Running

Hefty breathing

Powers his incapable limbs

To keep going, going

Going

Running

Breathing

Running

He won't stop

He has a goal

He is going to reach it

Because that ultra-young brain of his

Is as stubborn as a log

And he won't stop

Ever

He will keep going

Forever

Unless he reaches his goal before then.

So the little baby continues

Chasing after the butterfly

Flittering away from him

Rapidly

He will catch that butterfly

With only one thing in his mind:

I won't give up.

Author's Note

Hope you like it. Tell me what you think. ;-)

Reviews

[Wesley D. Stein]

Great! The butterfly reveal was perfect, letting the reader understand- only at the end- that we are all chasing something and persistance is key. Whether a toddler, a teen or a 36 year old father. ;)

[Tai Ryens]

I admire the philosophy hidden deep here. It certainly is a well thought out poem.

[C.A. Lucas]

Thank you. I will also get to polishing it up in a while because I believe that it's somewhat scattered. Like most poems I write, this one is forced and sloppy at the beginning. I think that the metaphor added to this a lot. When I thought of this idea it was originally going to be saying that I wouldn't give up, but I put myself into the body of a young child. Thank you for your review.