A Tender Distraction
By mark_yelland-brown
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I'm melting.
She caught me by the eyes
crinkled me up
like brown paper
I'm all wrinkled stuff.
That smile undoes everything
that was tied up tight and tense;
that smile unlocks the warm gush
that can heal a heart.
I will not deny her my eyes
and I smile;
this is now
and this hopeless situation
which she knows nothing about;
well
that's mine
for another time.
The delight
which seeps
an expanding puddle of warm-light
towards me,
what did I do?
I caught her eye
and held her
long enough
long enough for fun conspiracies.
Walking away
this three year old calls out
"Man!"
"Man!"
I look up and send her good wishes
without speaking;
she gives her benediction
by waving her rag doll
in my direction.
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Sitting in a traffic cue
Sitting in a traffic cue once I noticed in my mirror that the driver behind was making faces. Then I realised my young son in a car seat in the boot of the car facing backwards had been makiing smiling faces to him! Rhiannon
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