A link to joy

Shall I expect immediate answers to my questions?
Will waiting for providence eliminate my reason for learning?
Will I be bound, irrevocably
to letting others think for me?

I take refuge with my 4 year old granddaughter,
any time I have had the option of a shower.
I wouldn't want the child to remember
that smelly old man as her Pa.

We play the recorders together,
my granddaughter Sicily and I.
She a tiny one just her size,
And me on my base,

We open a portal between us
just for a moment, I See
through the eye of a child!
It bestows peace of mind.

The gift is of short duration
but it gives me momentary
power over the fragile thread
that holds it all together.