With impatient expectation

little faces change expression.

laughing alongside a highway of boredom,

chasing endless vanishing points.

When tall people break promises

towers of disappointment rise up,

provoking storm clouds from fairytale skies.

Unwished for lessons arrive on punctual lines.

At story time imaginations float like dandelion seeds

Suspended disbelief rules the literature hour,

with every savoured tick-tock of the clock,

Un tuned voices sing a ballad future bound.