Wild and Woolly

Childhood

My sister had a cuddly toy
Eyes wide, a cheery smile

But as a boy
Right by the Nile
I loved my willow crocodile

Sometimes they met
We made a bet
Who’d win our little championship

Her woolly mammoth would come by
And wild, untamed, my crocodile!

They’d wrestle in a frolic brawl
Chased themselves right up the wall

And then
quite soon
the dust would settle
on our faces

a pair of broken colorful shoe-laces

Oh, what would I yet give again
To live in this blissful world again