This is one of my favorite poems and I am trying to incorporate it into my son's scrapbook. These pictures remind me of making Thanksgiving dinner in the kitchen. A little guy comes in the kitchen and asks can I go outside. A few minutes later, I go to check on the turkey, and look out the back door and spy timid little boy throwing piles of leaves in the air. I stopped. Stood. Put the hot pads down and grabbed the camera. It was incredible fun and it was the best turkey dinner we had later that day.
I Took His Hand and Followed
My dishes went unwashed today,
I didn’t make the bed.
I took his hand and followed
Where his eager footsteps led.
O yes, we went adventuring,
My little son and I…
Exploring all the great outdoors
Beneath the summer sky.
We waded in a crystal stream,
We wandered through a wood…
My kitchen wasn’t swept today
But life was gay and good.
We found a cool, sun-dappled glade
And now my small son knows
How Mother Bunny hides her nest,
Where Jack-in-the-pulpit grows.
We watched a Robin feed her young,
We climbed a sunlit hill…
Saw a cloud-sheep scamper
Through the sky,
We plucked a daffodil.
That my house was neglected,
That I didn’t brush the stairs,
In twenty years, no one on earth
Will know, or even care.
But that I’ve helped my little boy
To noble manhood grow,
In twenty years, the whole wide world
May look and see and know.
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