There were games I use to play as a child <br />like hop scotch, or tag, ' your it! ' <br /> <br />Red Rover, Red Rover let someone come over <br />breaking through childrens hands linked like some broken stick. <br /> <br />Then ball and jacks, trying to grab them up <br />and marbles, drawn circle in the dirt. <br />Riding bikes as fast as our legs could petal <br />no helmets then, no one really seemed to get that hurt. <br /> <br />Then Red Light, Green Light, and Mother made a chocolate cake <br />it's where someone stuck their finger in it! <br />Then you turned around and tried to find <br />the one that really did it! <br /> <br />Then jump rope singing songs about a girl named Mary <br />jumps counted of the many times she was kissed. <br />Until you jumped not high enough <br />feet caught in the ropes try you've missed. <br /> <br />The games I use to play, so very long ago. <br />When children knew how to be children <br />not rushing their lives then to grow.<br /><br />Linda Winchell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/games-i-use-to-play/
