Restoration.
Updated on March 15, 2011
Restoration.
© -MFB III
They were the first
to discover it,
a sun dial in Paradise park,
that could reverse time,
simply by touching
its shadowed mark.
At ninety-years plus,
they were curious about
how much time they had left,
when suddenly,
as they touched
that magical sun tracker,
they were filled with an
incredibly exuberant energy,
and found themselves standing
on tippy-toes just to reach the top.
Their unwrinkled hands
and gazes of astonishment
revealed that they
were toddlers again,
just about four years old.
They danced around
that pedestal like puppies
in a frenzy at feeding time,
and the last I heard they were
swinging high in the air,
at the park's playground,
tilting their tousled blond heads
back to make butterflies in their tummies,
and squealing with
the sheer delight of starting over.