JUMPING

I watch my grandsons

as they jump on the couch,

jump down unto the floor,

jump back up again,

with seemingly no effort.

Jump up and jump down.

It seems unfair, to tell the truth.

Should we not grow into jumping?

Should it not come later in life,

after living for awhile upon this earth?

Should it not come after years

of practicing and several

rehearsals?

Perhaps after some college.

Maybe an undergraduate

degree in jumping?

Why should it be that they,

so young, just beginning life,

without any practice,

with no teaching whatsoever,

should be able

to do something that I,

their grandfather,

cannot do?

I should protest to them,

but I find I cannot catch them.

They have both just

jumped away.

Gary