(To Eliana)
In a face filled with joy
Lives a young girl
Eyes shining
While skipping through
The empyrean
Glowing in heavenly lights
(Oh, my blinded eyes)
Music of the spheres
(Isn’t the noise level above the legal decibel limit?)
Wall to wall gameland
(Don’t know if I can stand in line much longer)
Scents of cheese, dough and tomato
(Finally! Gimme some pizza and caffeine!)
Yet I smile and laugh and snap pictures
With my phone that is so smart
Because it knows
Childhood passes, never lasts
And I lovingly watch my little granddaughter
Realizing she will invariably remember
This enchanted evening
That will live and grow
In her imagination
Forever…
© 2017 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)
IMAGE: Chuck E. Cheese’s somewhere in the US
