presbyopia

look

i can’t stop now

because i have things to do

and to start later on

so that one day

i can have kids

and they’ll say

dad

tell me a story about

all those things you do

and i’ll read them this poem

proud and mighty

about the wrangled product

after working and working

just for this moment

with my children here

in front of me

i in front of them

waiting for me to show them

all i’ve done for the them

i didn’t know they would become

but am happy nonetheless

with the result

smiling

excited

that this is it

finally it

so i read happily

“look”

and in the end

they ask

is that it

and i say yes

and they say oh

and i say i have

some things to do

still

though they don’t hear

for they have been called away

somewhere i do not see