(I sometimes can't believe that as a child I was such a little schemer. My kids aren't like this...... or are they........? Thanks, Mecca for lending me the word "shady")

Faking
taking
my medicine
was sometimes a little bit fun

like pretending
eating
an un-liked meal
'til it was "gone"

it was inventive
using napkins
to keep unwanted food

safe,
escapades like these
saved a boring childhood,

I'd eat everything else I
could get my little hands on

things like celery
and lettuce, as long
as the sneak was on

and unwrapping gifts
from under the tree
was so exciting

almost as fun
as re-wrapping them,
all the while my unsuspecting

parents who'd soon
figure out
my shady plans
pretended

not to
at least until
I'd grown just
a few more inches,

still, I was really
quite good
at being
very sly

one eye to look out, to watch for trouble
while one eye scanned
for my

latest endeavor.
Maybe I should have
perhaps been a detective,

ah, but then the joy
I'm afraid, would soon turn too objective

and I couldn't have that, no, no, no
enough in life's not fun
so instead I wiggle words
into shapes and sometimes
pretty good puns...

I miss those days
from my childhood
when I could fool anyone

now, I'm afraid
just a little fib
turns me red
as if from the sun.......



copyright 2007 Rose Loya