TheBanyanTree: First Day

[Sharon Mack]

For all of you young mother's sending a child off to school for the
first time.  I wrote this 33 years ago for my youngest daughter when she
went off to kindergarten:


First Day
		

Picture of brightness,
A child untouched
Sleeps beneath the rafters
Of this house.

I want to keep you.
Let you linger
In your angelic sleep
Just a bit longer.

But society calls
And you ride to it
With a tear in your eye
On a yellow bus.

by Sharon A. Mack