You pick up toys
here & there
& a piece of poo
(mummified now)
from the baby’s
nappy
when she crawled
crap ‘n’ all behind the couch.
This, obviously
a bit we missed.
I watching you
bend & bend again
picking up all the little things
of being human
aTigger…a tiger
a Pooh…a poo.
Your smiling face
covered & uncovered
by a falling curtain
of hair.
Your hair falling
in a black wave of applause.
Your appearing
& disappearing
smile
the most beautiful thing of all
in all my world.
It sneaks
almost unnoticed
into my mind
curls up
& goes asleep
where I, all these
years later
discover
it
remember
it
hold it
in my hand
& weep.
Dónall Dempsey
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/your-disappearing-smile/
