Children No More

A picture hangs on my wall it’s a photograph taken by me of two little girls by the riverside fishing there with me. One is fishing with her home made rod that her Grandpa made the other with her little net for which her pocket money paid. They didn’t catch any fish that day not even a tiddler or two but they still had a happy day and their picture taken too! They’re grown up now Children no more though one at home still stays the other has gone away to live her student days. They always loved the riverside and being there with me but if they had a special place it was being by the sea. Now sometimes when I walk across a beach my mind plays tricks on me I can hear their little voices shout “we’re playing in the sea!” I see their smiling faces happy on the beach and little footprints in the sand made by their tiny feet. They’re grown up now Children no more living life’s laughter and tears and I wonder if they still remember those special childhood years.