You listen <br />with twisting awkwardness <br />squirming in <br />my remembrances <br />of you <br /> <br />as I tell you <br />of you <br />at 2 <br />And oh...the things that you <br />would do! <br /> <br />Oh you... <br />a tentative teenager now <br />embarrassed at <br />your recent past <br /> <br />which seems so far removed from you <br />but not for me <br />You trying to be <br />cool & sophisticated like <br />a Spice Girl <br />Girl power! <br /> <br />Years later you will have changed again <br />and deny you ever were: <br />'No…I never!' <br />but ah…yes you were! <br />You take <br />your grinning boyfriend <br />by the hand <br /> <br />imploring him: <br />“Don’t listen to my old man! ”<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-please-anything-but-the-baby-pictures/
