So Often Ignored

So Often Ignored Nannies know little of color White holding favor by 5th Ave employers Barons and Baronesses of means Gazing from insulated windows on high As infant guardian merges blanketed carriage and job Into daily Central Park realities Inquisitive bundled baby stares Starched guardian Folded like a napkin atop the park bench Idles her time with smartphone pressed to ear Caressing air-born voices To soften dreams Rigid as the armor-hardened uniform She wears Mittened hands strain with curiosity As sweatered pit bull puppy Strains at leash Infant eyes tear of confinement Duty and resolve tethers canine away Both wondering in infantile language Must naïve curiosity always remain separated Why so much fearful exposure Engendering further fear Made to keep separate Connections intended From eight stories up on the avenue Binoculared eyes and iphoned voice Remind Nanny to place baby's reaching hands Beneath angora blanket Protect Protect The puppy sniffs another moment Nannie pockets smart phone Gathers responsibility Wheels away doleful innocence Master jerks leash Ever mindful of misunderstanding Suddenly... The simple language Pant Lick Smile Giggle Contact Becomes one's early experience Cautioning of query's risk Onlookers duck heads Perhaps conscious Acknowledgment might create fatal pause Thus Retreating ignorance by observers Becomes a "through a glass darkly" for innocents Risking perhaps forever embedded distrust As the child with smiles A puppy with out-of-control-tail swag Separate Unrequited love Becomes just another vanishing moment For disquieted hearts Simple lessons of oneness So often ignored