Trailblazing

We should have felt like trailblazers

When the

Basketballs

Tennis balls and

Racquets

Even a miniature football

All came out

Along with us and

The sixty degree weather

On this fine Wednesday

Near the end of February

We should have but

That’s just not the way it works for me

Even if I show up at the school fifteen minutes early

I’m still not the first car in line for pick up and

Even before this Wednesday happened

I knew I was already

A step or

Two or

Two months worth of steps

Behind

There was no denying it

Not in the emerging yellow glow of the

Daffodils and

As we watched one ball after the other

Roll down the street or

Fly over the house

There wasn’t time

For denial or

Trailblazing