A Boy

A boy

Three years young and running free

Giggling as he plays with me

Telling tales of things he's done

When barely has his life begun

He sprays me with his dragon fire

Or dresses up in strange attire

To act like something never seen

Imagining things that've never been

His brain makes something ours did not

The world's first taste of a boy's grand plot

A boy

A year has past since he was two

Desires voiced on what to do

Ideas abounding, new words sounding

Telling us he's someone too

Learning what a truck is for

Peek-a-boo behind the door

Cackling at all life's surprises

What's he thinking? one surmises

Marveling at this special soul

Melting is this heart he stole

A boy

Toothless tot trying to talk

Wobbling, bobbling, trying to walk

Staring at the new, forever

His mind alight grows quickly clever

Though quite small, his purpose huge

Hard to stop this centrifuge

Of energy so beaming bright

Attacks the tasks with all his might

A boy

Tiny bundle meets the earth

No words describe his precious worth

Helpless yes but hopeless no

Love abounds and loves him so

Gives him all just what he needs

Waters him like thirsty seeds

So presently he grows and grows

More lovely as the season goes

A boy

Infinitesimal in the womb

Mommy hears his heart go boom

Swirling, twirling in the deep

Peacefully dwelling in deepest sleep

Forming faster now than ever

The beautiful miracle comes together

A boy

The apple of his Maker's eye

A brilliant picture painted

None can fathom this glorious creature

His life momentarily latent

We wonder what it looks like

So spectacular a view

Of all us boys and girls in mind

Long before the world knew

Perhaps we would be startled

To glance at our envisioned visage

Resembling perfectly our Maker

Of whom we ever bear the image.