Squiggles on paper.

Daddy why are you always writing

and why can’t you draw like Mummy?

Mummy can draw beautiful things

and she lets us draw all over the paper you bring home from work.

But Daddy why do you just write all those

squiggly lines that don’t mean a picture?

And why can’t I write my drawings on your page

without you telling me I am a naughty boy?

I think that you should draw like Mummy

and paint big pictures to put on our walls.

Why Daddy do you always squiggle in your book

and then put it away when you are finished?

Are you not happy with what you have drawn?

I think that you are not happy with it because

you can not understand those squiggles.

What do those ones mean?

He is learning to read all the major words

and wants to spell everything.

I tell him that when he can read, a whole new world

will open up and exciting adventures can take form in his head.

But who will write these fantastic adventures

if heads are not full with stories to relate?

So I will stay here until something springs forth to start

a creation that will set minds ablaze with imagination.

And I am still here……….waiting……..