PHOTOGRAPH

Look at those happy, beautiful children
Held forever still in time
The bright eyes and perfect smiles
I'm so glad they're mine.

One day God will take them away
Or give them to someone new
This is why I take the pictures
And store my memories , too.

For they are growing up, you see
Growing, oh, so fine
Soon they will become young women
But, they're babies forever in my mind.

I have only one request
What I wish for Him to do
Is keep me forever twenty
And them forever one and two.

-Betty K.
1986