'Twinkle twinkle little star
how I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high...'
-English Nursery Rhyme Song
they didn't close the gate this time;
their Grandmother will be sad
and the leaves in the yard are piled up
everywhere.
who will jump in them now
so that they leap up almost
to where I shine?
or swing a little harder on the swings
trying to reach the tops of the pines.
I would light their way
but I am small and long gone by.
I will weep with the small white clover
in the grasses, my cousins,
once it is summer.
they will be far away
by then
but I will find them.
will they know me
viewing it all from a window
strange to them?
I wonder.
having been taught by them
so long ago
that little twinkling song
they sang
in the back yard.
mary angela douglas 19 march 2016
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem