Words of Wednesday 5.10.2006

At my desk I sit and ponder
my thoughts do flit and wander
Of women fair and winsome stares
and memories of yonder

Of simple times when all books rhymed
and turn of page on chime
Of Dr. Seuss and Mother Goose
and Howdy Doody Time

And now I see what I did miss
for as a child in bliss
I never knew the tangled world
could be so full of twist

Of questions grey and issues deep
and memories I'm wont to keep
Of downcast eyes and granite stone
and all that made me weep

Of fruit I've eaten so it seems
and horrid knowledge, torrid streams
and though I flounder eat my fill
in silence drown the screams