Life through children's eyes
                                 - for my little brother

I want to understand life

And its jumbled abstractions

I want to be a page in your book

Of superheroes

I want to be a four – leafed clover

And be lost and found again

I want to be the cane

Leading the way for someone

Who returned from war

I want to remember this sketch

Of the sea, and your hand

Holding the brush, finishing it

I want to be a jellyfish

Discovering

Sand, shore, toes –

For the first time