PRECIOUS BOY

Crusty stains

Dot my proud chest

Dried cereal and saliva

Porridge

Bananas

Sweet Ame’dee’

Marks his new territory with innocent precision

Eternal reward

Found in angelic purity

Stinky pants

Gleeful naked dance

As Momma intervenes

Only a special little man

May pee on my suitcase without objection

Cooing songs of enchanted legend

Cherubs

Speak to him as he sleeps peacefully

Instructions

Guidance

For his next level of growth

Tiny “Medochek”

Russian for “honey”

Small bundle of sedative

Just the right size

For this captured heart

May you always talk to God in such communion

I love you young one

Without exception

“But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven”

Matthew 19:14

© Bill Grimes Jr. 2005