Monday, February 26, 2024

The Man Grows Old, the Child Grows Up

The child falls in the pool
And starts to drown. The man
Who sees this, from the street,

Jumps in and hauls the child
Back on the grass. The child
Coughs and then starts to breathe.

No one notes this but them.
Where’s your mom? asks the man.
The child just stares at him,

Which gets on his nerves, so
He stands up, his clothes soaked,
And walks off down the street.

When the child’s mom comes out
From the house, she is shocked
And scared to see her child,

Still wet, close to the pool.
She does not see the man.
No one will have seen the man.

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