A Joyous Day

The best parts
of  my day
are when I have
the opportunity
to be useful
to other people-

to perhaps
turn on a light
in their head
as they respond
"Oh, Yeah!"
excitedly

and see
and understand
something
for the first time.

Or it could be
the effortless
absorption
of children
in joyous play
with the simplest
of objects-
a block of wood,
a string of cubes.

They know
what's fun
and what's not
by the ease
excitement
and rapture
they bring
to each moment.

Let not this day
end
they're thinking,
let not this life
end
if it can be 
this much fun! 

We have so much
to learn from children
which coincidently
we once were.



Copyright © 2013 Gary Frates