Thanks to @budtheteacher for another prompt that took me in a very different direction than what I had imagined.
Playthings (or Poetry)
You are my companion on wild backyard adventures,
my solace on rainy indoor days
and in those troubled times,
my last goodnight before dreams take me into sleep.
I build with you, color with you,
pretend and pretend and pretend
with you until I am not sure
where pretend ends and real begins.
I bounce you around
and make you tell stories,
toss you into the air
and leave you sprawled on the floor,
evidence that we are not idle,
evidence that we are working, thinking.
Picking up the loose thread of any of a thousand tales,
each day we see the world through my wise child eyes.
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