Better! 'n Better!---Oh! Yeah!...Amen!

Baseball! Professor! Chess! & Pure-wit!---Pure…“Love!”

 

I confess a purposed “modern” transgress: I never had any-plan!

 

My “kid”-world revolved around an easy conclusion: Faith! Family! Freedom!

Parameters-set of simple-necessity: My-town! The-farm! & Fox-Lake! Amen!

 

Many of my-contemporaries entertained seemingly myriad sophisticated-ambitions!

Some wanted celebrity! Or fame! Or fortune! All---seeking…perceived-Happiness!

A few sought “Good”-grades! Some-careers! Trophy-mates! Education! Accolades!

The gamut runs as far & wild as any “kid” might dare to dream the impossible! Amen!

 

Faith! Family! Freedom! necessary-desire engaged my ambition for Truth! & Justice!

I found redemption for my-“wants” in the confines of a self-revered sacred-trinity!

 

Parents like kids might pray-for! (My Dad & Mom rewarded with the likes of---me!?)

A saintly-spouse (angelic)! Perfect-children like my own-parents deserved! Hmm!?

 

And, then---when it can’t get any-better?...more-Love! Grandchildren! Wow!

 

When “baseball”-Z. Tyler came along, I turned 40! And, retired! So we could play!

I took him out of school and we played golf! I “cheated” on the score-card in those

very-early years---so Z. always “won”!...By his 12^th year…I couldn’t beat him! True!

I hit him op-flies with an aluminum-bat and a golf-ball so high it seemed to virtually-

disappear; he'd meander-over, watch it-return, and catch it easy-nonchalant! Talent!

At 10, I’d throw the baseball in a high-arc so that it would just clear the yard-fence;

He’d mosey-back, judge the-distance, leap-high and save the “home-run”! Bravo!

 

Then, comes our Lauren Victoria girl! Precious-sweet! LuVy! The Little-Professor!

I taught her to faux-“cough” when I said “Bad-cough!”---Cool!...Doc didn’t think-so!

She took over “parenting” when cousin-Lexi and sister-Anna came along! Age:”2”!

Smart as a “whip”! I soon dubbed her “Little-Professor!” & “Little-mommy!” Love!

Our-beauty is 2^nd-semester at Kentucky-University! Already made the Dean’s-list! Wow!

Love’s to-cook! The “Love-of-her-life”?---a tall-equine named “Skippy!”…Yippie-Yi-Aye!

 

Our Lovely-Lexi came to us 17-years after her older-brother, Z. Tyler! Yea!

Alexandria Elizabeth! (Wow! How did she ever learn to spell that one-correctly?)

So-beautiful! Smart! Softball-thletic! Polite! Kind! A heaven-sent blessing! Amen!

I taught Lexli-Lu to play chess when she was just 6-years old! Beat-me! Every-time!

She always uses the-secret 4-move to checkmate before I can even begin to think! Smart!

Lexi still doesn’t like when I absently call her “Ezmarelda!” It’s an-endearment! Honest!

Like her myriad other-talents, Lexi rides the thunder-steeds like some wild-wind!  Yahoo!

 

Finally---our little-“Pistola”!...Precious-Anna Marie! Beauty! Intelligence! & Wit!

All the same characteristics of her beautiful-sister Lauren and cousins Z. and Lexi!

A “great” equestrian-master with talent! Loves animals; like the others! Benevolent!

She loves to-cook! Gets straight-“A’s”! Rides her “Zorro”-horse like some wild-wind!

Annie used to trade “barbs” with “Bapa” like a veteran; she is quite the-“wit”!

In my old age, Anna has relented---Respect!?...Hmm!? Might well-be---“pity”!?

 

Each “blessing” has comforted our-lives! Brought immense-“Joy!” & “Love!”

All-4 love to cook!---And, like everything they do…Experts! “Yum!-Yum!”

 

Over some 7-decades, I’ve expanded my parameters---geographically…slightly!?

I never nurtured some “grand”-ambition; that’s for other faux “Royal!?”-elites!?

Planned-marriages! Right-religion! Contiguous farm-land empires!? Really!?

Marry Mr.-“Right”!? Very best-university!? Big-house! Best zip-code! Huh!?

 

Reckon all I ever “wanted”, in some-fantasy, was simply One-Great-Family!

I sure-enough got that-Right! Couldn’t ask for any better-Blessing! Amen!

 

For (simple-humble)-me!?---Celebrate! A “Great!”-life…of Love! & Laughter!

 

Good-enough is absent effort!

Better ignites sacred-ambition!

Best celebrates Supreme-success!

 

Live! Love! Laugh! Focus-contemplate!

Vigilant-be! No-one’s future is ever-late!

 

Faith! Family! Freedom! Might just be all there really---Is!

In one eternal-instant the only mercy-blessing will be…His!

 

Amen!