Play

We are Winter Poets, Poem 5

Play

I could

Command from on high

All day, but

It would go right over their little heads.

The best way to turn things in a better direction

(and keep them going that way)

Is usually to

Get down on the floor

Criss-cross

Applesauce and

Join in.

(I think God knows this secret too.)

At first,

My knees and my playing muscles are stiff.

With time,

They loosen up and I find that

Once you start to play,

There’s more to do than you first thought.