Enjoy Father’s Day, and enjoy the following poem written by our pediatrician colleague at CHOP Care Network Newtown, Dr. Bob Sasson. It depicts a common parenting quandary.– Drs. Kardos & Lai
The New Bicycle
Bursting with Joy
She mounts her new bicycle
Pink and blue streamers
Extend from the white rubber grips
At the end of the shining handlebars
With unbridled excitement
She presses down hard on the pedals
The wheels begin to turn
She giggles with glee
Smiling at the neighbors
As she moves quickly past the nearby houses
Her youthful energy exuberant
Spilling over with an abundance
Of Vitality and Joy
Turning back to see her parents approving eyes
She smiles…loses her focus…
The bicycle tumbling to the ground
A scrape of her knee…a trickle of blood
A moment of Hesitation
Looking back again
Awaiting her parent’s cues
How will they respond?
How would you?
By Robert Sasson, MD
Visions of Thought
A collection of inspirational imagery and poetry, 2008
