You are the most beautiful piece of breathing art

I have ever encountered

And before I met you, something not quite touchable

Was in a way always missing

The way you unexpectedly came crashing into my life

Barefoot and eyes wide open

Holding something stronger than love in your little hands

Kind of made me believe in fairytales again

And baby, just like that

- Loving you made sense

Threads of muscle fibers,
Over time,
Became twisted into thick ropes
That anchored you to the column of ivory tusks
Which lay the foundation for your slumped demeanor.

Your forward shoulders
Drew your sinking heart ever deeper
Into the hyperkyphotic cave where it may slumber.

Upon your flesh, my palm may rest
A heated plate
To melt those ties of tendon to bone
And set your cardio free from your rib cage

Lifted and soaring
You see me weekly
But when you smile
I wonder
Who this is really for

children gaze
and light tenderly refracts to the image

children smile
and time relinquishes its dimension

children speak
and air becomes oxygen enriched

children laugh
and matter matters not

children paint
and elements fuse

children dance
and life flows