Does Any Adult Slightly Wonder

The puffy, stomach-fattened mouse is closing in on the ballerina. They do a pirouette around the stage, and the crowd goes wild, But silently. This is an auditorium, and we are taught obedience By the mere reverent attitude of Nutcrackers past. But do the children go silently wild? Or are they now ripe for a good nightmare? Are they as enthralled as the adults? It is a tradition to go wild, because our parents said It is so, and so it is. Does any adult ever slightly wonder How we would feel, if we ever saw these skating Mammals in the same room, and they were the Same size? If you have ever observed the scary Quickness of a mouse darting out of a kitchen floor crack, You might realize that children, who are much smaller Than this Christmas mouse, might feel intimidated And fearful after such a show. Any thinking adult would hope to not see the mouse And the little girl the same size in real life also. However, on stage, with the tin soldiers, and the Christmas tree, We are okay with it Some of us, not all. A Christmas ballet, some of us See yearly, without thinking of that. When the children cannot explain their nightmares, Do we figure out why?