What we say when we are afraid of just the same

What We Say When We Are Afraid Of Just The Same

     (For Ry)

On our walk from school

With your dirty face, you say

Papa, I don’t like two things

I like kindergarten, but not the grades

Like first grade and second grade

And third grade and fourth

Oh, yeah? Why not, Ry?

Because they don’t celebrate

Birthdays.  They don’t?

No, but we do in kindergarten

So I don’t want to go in the grades

And what’s the other thing?

Papa, I don’t want to die

Someone told me when a person

Dies it’s for ever and ever and

Ever.

You don’t have to worry about that

For a long, long time, Ry

Let’s just enjoy kindergarten

Since you get to celebrate

Birthdays.