As Children

On remembrance
and cognizance
As children we are not
meant to tightrope on sewing thread
As children we are meant
be busy with dream
our bodies bursting

with sport and appetite for sweets
for the stronger savoury
for the game, the next game
and the following game after that

Somewhere work intrudes
the knock on the head
of schooling driven
home and to gate
to not be late

As children we're taught
bastardry as the pack
picks the weak
as child unfortunate

perhaps being lifted
and not placed to bed
under nightwrenched Charlots
would've been best for the habitat.