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IF YOU GET TO RUN THE TABLE
If you get to run the table
A second time
See all over again
Through your child eyes
Sense the newness, beauty and joy
More fully felt
Than the first time
Now you see the speed of change
How we must propel ourselves
To keep up with the rate of growth
One day a little boy
Seeming the next, a teen
And all you can do is watch and love
Advice, here and there
A winter passes
Each year a whole new world
And the parent feels it all again
But smiles as these wonders abound
Leaving us empty down the stretch
Knowing that what is past is gone
Never to be revisited in daylight
But available to be recollected
Should the need arise
And when it does
A wistful sense of remembrance
Passes through the body
Knowing what a great life is
Because you had one
And that is all that can be done
Leaving expectation adrift
Slowly separating from the ship
Which sails on
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