LOOK

WHAT HAS HAPPENED

Look at us now.

We are past the age 

of running full speed 

through piles of leaves 

we've spent hours raking.

.

Mother baking biscuits and ham 

for dinner appears at the door 

shaking her head but smiling.

Those days of innocence of you and me 

seven and three years old respectively are gone.

. 

They disappeared like smoke 

from the smoldering fire set to burn those leaves

Daddy decided we weren't a family anymore 

and we went off to live in another man's house.

.

Oh, how that man hated us because our daddy 

had cheated with the man's sorry wife.

It wasn't Daddy's fault she decided to have 

the baby everyone claimed was our daddy's...

.

So life for us wasn't days of playing 

running full speed through the leaves anymore

Days were only for raking and chores 

but one thing did pay off somehow

Out of all that heartbreak, heartache  and sorrow, 

we gained another chubby, red faced boy!

Look at us now!

Author's Note