All the Little Pieces

Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces Your cousins and your wife, your nephews and your nieces Your kids and your grand kids; their elbows and their kneeses The hugs and kisses they hand out and all their little squeezes Your pets both big and small; Great Danes or Pekineses Your triplets and your twins and even Siameses And all those trips you took in hot times or in freezes The weather in your life through calm or gentle breezes And when you hit it big; your name on the marquises When you were in perfect health and all your coughs and sneezes If you could do it all again in multiple reprises You’d find that all these crumbs of life are all that ever pleases Mike Dailey 6/19/11 Contest: All the Little Pieces 3rd place finish in the contest