FORGOTTEN CHILD

as from your house your mother sees
you playing 'round the garden trees
so you may see if you will look
through the windows of this book
another child, far far away
and in another play
but do not think you can at all
by knocking on the window...call...
the child to hear you. his intent...
is all on his play-business event
he does not hear, he will not look
nor will he be lured out of this book
for long ago, the truth to say
he has grown up and gone away
and it is but a child of air
that lingers in the garden there