Playing Grown Up

Children love to play Grown Up And choose bright, pretty dresses They slap and dab loads of makeup And strut like Greek empresses They gab and gossip and chitter As they parent their dolls And sprinkle loads of cool glitter As dolls walk down the halls And as they copy our weird ways We smile and nod with bliss Their bumbling trips light up our days Joy, don’t get beyond this Because when we are real goody And treat others like gold They stop to sulk, and be moody And miracles unfold For then they ignore Dad’s back aches Deadlines and piling bills And parenting and all it takes And say Growing up thrills!