Author's Note: Just a poem…you know who it's about.

little blond children

ribbons and red shoes, skylights and secrets

ice cream and bad dreams and cornflower hair

blue hats and baseballs, and endless reasons

greenhouses, treehouses, tension-filled stares

vigils and virgins, choices and chances

faces and spaces, truces and trains

Shakespeare and shyness, daydreams and dances

lovers and liars, regression and rain

journals and jump rope, Paris and platitudes

parents and poetry, spitballs and schemes

envy and enemies, scowls and bad attitudes

friendship when nothing is quite what it seems

little blond children are all the above is

little blond children, their song not yet sung

little blond children remind us what love is

little blond children who keep us all young