A Word to World Leaders

PAD Challenge Day 6: Write a 'you're being watched' poem. 

You watch my mood,

Jolly, subdued

My rushed or soft,unhurried touch

You read my eyes

My smiles and sighs

The tone of my replies and such

You crave my time

Above all else

You prefer words like ‘with’ and ‘we’

You love to laugh

And imitate

The things you see or hear from me

I wouldn’t trade

For any Thing

This Very Best that I have had

With you; tomorrow’s

Women, men

Shaped by world-leaders; mom and dad

© Janet Martin

...first mom and dad  then grandmas and grandpas, teachers, babysitters and all the other members

of a village it takes to raise a child...