Today in our yard,
Zoey and I played soccer.
She kicks the ball hard.
Sweaty and hungry,
Zoey and I came inside.
It was time for lunch.
Moving through our home,
I asked her what she wanted.
"Chocolate milk, please!"
Time and time again—
"You can't live on milk alone!"
I opened the fridge.
Standing on the stool,
She eyed the fridge's contents—
Leftover pizza!
After nuking it,
Made my way to the counter,
Knife and fork in hand.
Tiny little bits,
I cut and cut the pizza
So she wouldn't choke.
Something on my leg?
Had an itch but did not scratch.
Perhaps an insect?
Looked down, saw nothing.
Continued cutting her lunch.
Zoey came over.
She scratched my right leg.
"I will scratch your leg, Daddy.
You won't itch no more."
I had not given
A sign my leg itched, yet she
Scratched it anyway.
How could she have known?
Dropping knife and fork, I ran
To find our Bible.
A witch? Demon seed?
She had really freaked me out.
Possessed? ESP?
Perhaps the reason
Was that we spend so much time
Together, you know?
But there's a bright side:
We'll blow their minds during her
Preschool's Show and Tell.
Zoey and I played soccer.
She kicks the ball hard.
Sweaty and hungry,
Zoey and I came inside.
It was time for lunch.
Moving through our home,
I asked her what she wanted.
"Chocolate milk, please!"
Time and time again—
"You can't live on milk alone!"
I opened the fridge.
Standing on the stool,
She eyed the fridge's contents—
Leftover pizza!
After nuking it,
Made my way to the counter,
Knife and fork in hand.
Tiny little bits,
I cut and cut the pizza
So she wouldn't choke.
Something on my leg?
Had an itch but did not scratch.
Perhaps an insect?
Looked down, saw nothing.
Continued cutting her lunch.
Zoey came over.
She scratched my right leg.
"I will scratch your leg, Daddy.
You won't itch no more."
I had not given
A sign my leg itched, yet she
Scratched it anyway.
How could she have known?
Dropping knife and fork, I ran
To find our Bible.
A witch? Demon seed?
She had really freaked me out.
Possessed? ESP?
Perhaps the reason
Was that we spend so much time
Together, you know?
But there's a bright side:
We'll blow their minds during her
Preschool's Show and Tell.
