BETWEEN BORDERS

(At the Gate to Toyland)

I am meeting Johnny today

and together we shall play

until others call us away.

I shall bring a picnic lunch,

He will bring the games,

and we shall meet

between the border gates.

When the afternoon is spent

in games and laughter

and tall tales,

Johnny will return

to a land where I may not go.

I will take my picnic basket,

now empty, back to my home

where Johnny may, someday, come

when many long days have passed

and I am grown old

and Johnny no longer young.

But for now

we can meet each other here

on this small space of earth

that each and neither country claims.

And for this little while,

in this unruled place

between the border gates

Johnny and I shall play

till we are called away.

#internationalyadayadaday