Amazing

 

 

     Where have the previous thirteen years ran to?

  That day when my wife and I tended our first born

is now some thirteen years away,

     where is it those thirteen years are now hiding?

 

     Our Son Wyatt be as tall as a ships mast,

and by knowing his empath, his mast boasts full

sail of seas where only a need for sleep can

     interrupt his adventure, his beautiful smile.

 

     It is his Birthday and he is at ease with

passage into his teenage years – his parents fear,

          ‘one would swear he has fore-knowledge

               of how best to tease parents and be a proverbial…………’

 

     Even next doors cat seems wide eyed and alarmed

at that new calmly set glint,

     a glint many a fair maiden would declare – handsome and,

          enticing.

 

     My wife and I are worried,

how is it he be as tall as ships and just as bold as the Warrior of Rainbows?

   And there be a tip, - his father and mother be proud for -

     he concerns himself with a need for environment

        and ecology – ‘such concern his very own intellectual compassion!’

 

     Thirteen years ago Ma lay exhausted -

checking his every small of fingers and every small of toes,

   with tears upon a benevolent smile her day, our day,

          our life and love – held within the spark that is

     the gift of life; the complement we give to one another

         and universe; beyond an event - many take for granted.

 

          ‘together – our first, born!’

 

     Now he sits devouring a Chinese treat of sweet and sour -

fried seaweed, rice – ribs, chicken, curry and more,

   and way too cool for me to bargain with,

        I was never such glint of eye.

 

     I am as his father – amazed.

          I am as his father – amazed,

               I am as his father shining at the moon and stars and, amazed,

                    and with Ma and sister too;-

                               proud, and with love, with Wyatt!

 

     Happy Birthday Wyatt.

                    Mum Dad Sis and Bro too.

 

Robinson Family 29th Avril 2023