World’s smallest footprints
in a patch of snow
cause me to pause
and ponder
Looking closer
I see ten perfect toes
and wonder what a baby
is doing unshod in the snow
Alarmed, I follow their progress
The footprints
grow smaller
closer together
almost as if
They never were
I turn around to a field
of unblemished snow
footprints are gone
baby’s and mine
Almost as if
We never were
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