ALBS

Being spent for the day
He crashed in his grandmother’s lap
And closed his eyes.

As she stroked his hair,
She asked, ‘would you still do this if you have a wife and children?’
With his eyes still closed, he smiled.
And smiling he replied, ‘for they would know only the man I am and will be, but you, you will know the child that I was, the child that I will always be and hence I will remain that, with you, so yes’