Song Drabble 5
Kick the Can
It looked like
Hide and go seek
Where is he?
In the bush? No
In the secret spot behind the rock
Like it would be
Tag
You're it
Runrunrun
Base!
We don't have a base
That's cheating
Not if I run faster
Like fun.
Sword fights
With
Little wooden swords
Jump dodge swingswingswing
Oh man! Now the score's 1 to 35!
C'mon, let's go again!
But it would never
Race
Runrunrun
Up the tree
Across the rope
Jump ledge to ledge
Touch the star and come back
Now the score's 1 to 36!
go again we're not done yet
never be hers.
Crayons to paper.
Colors across the vast expanse of the page.
And suddenly there were no longer three people there.
There were four.
Except that maybe it could.