Today I Just Want to Love You #2

Today I just want to love you

To concentrate on the color gray-blue

Sparkling with gold flecks; your eyes

Crinkling and twinkling with humor, sweet child

I just want to drown in the music of your laughter

Trickling and lilting up to heaven’s rafter

Today I just want to love you, that’s all

Without duty’s persistent bugle call

Or the pathetic, perpetual distraction

Of self-focused desire and ambition

I just want to listen and really hear

What you are saying and why, my dear

Today’s priority might be to pause and stare

As the wind teases and tousles your hair

Or thrill to the childish curve of your lip

As you chatter; and what of those moments that slip

From the face of the clock? They are surely the heart-beat

Of living and gathering love’s bittersweet

Today I just want to love you the best I can

Tomorrow, if God will’s a boy becomes a man

And the quiet will echo of moments and hours

In childhood’s wink; go now, smell the flowers

Touch, taste, cherish; soon a lifetime is through

Oh sweet child, today I just want to love you

© Janet Martin; aka mom

Regardless of my fanciful wishes, all the love in the world doesn’t fill hungry tummies, so I better skedaddle before the school-bus comes!

I found this page below, in a book I was reading yesterday so I placed it in a holder on my kitchen-counter because life has a way of...distracting.