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Donall Dempsey
Poems
Apr 8
THE SNAKES AND LADDERS OF TIME
THE SNAKES AND LADDERS OF TIME
she gasps
at the faded photograph.
a crease hides my smile
"What...you. . .
you
were four?"
she's never considered
this before
I smile at her disbelief
that this fat old man
could ever have been
surely not her age
she acts as if she is
the first four
ever to be
ahhhhh
the snakes
and ladders of time
"Oh it's a long time since
I was four...but four
...I was for sure!"
I laugh at her incredulity
"So where did your four go!"
she asks like a defence lawyer
turning to
the judge and jury
of her lined up dolls
"And how did you get so old?"
she clinches the conversation
convincingly
yes...where did I go
I question myself
four year olds never die
they play hide and seek
in the minds
of fat old men
popping mischievously up
with a now and then yell
"Here I be!"
"But if you were four
once upon
a time ago..."
I feel her
argument
close about me
"Then you should know
why
I don't want to go to bed!"
I check with my former
four year old self
sure enough he says: "Yup!"
I have to admit
she
has got me...there
trapped by my child's
impeccable logic
...******
and so we have 4
extra Snakes and Ladders
played with all her
extreme hysteria
stops only
when I fall asleep
she covers me
with a towel
from the bathroom
puts her self
to bed thank
you very much
tells Mummy
"Shhhhhhhh...
Daddy's sleeping!
Written by
Donall Dempsey
Guildford
(Guildford)
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