Banished
(by R.P.Edwards)
Little poopy diaper
Hiding by the door
Banished from the party
Not carried anymore...
Oh, I'm well acquainted with the diaper-filled existence. Granted, the first wave of wearers has grown, but THEIR offspring have now also adorned the inglorious girdle. It's a part of life. A part of growing. A part of "must" doing. AND, as a grandparent, it touches me little.
However, on this day as I mulled about and eventually made my way to the Sunroom (an addon with a separate door of entrance) I saw "it" coyly nestled against the outermost exit. A little diaper wrapped in a leftover grocery bag. I knew immediately the why and when. No doubt the youngest among us had expressed himself robustly and his wise mother, rather than disposing of the aromatic package in an inner receptacle, she chose a place farther away but one that would be noticed before "trash day." It made me smile and it made me...a little sad.
The poem continues:
...The leavings of a wee one
Not yet polished in his ways
And I view with tempered sadness
Knowing Oh how brief the days
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