You Hope….

You click the camera, and hope that nothing ever breaks their spell…not growing up, not shouldering the world in which they now dance so spritely

you hope they will smile through their eyes all their lives long  and speak so freely with one another, and reach out their arms to bestow affection, without questioning the desire to do so

you hope that they will always twirl in unison, with their laughing heads to the sky, and their wild hair at one with the wind

you hope this with a fever to rival the sun. You hope they will not one day, decades hence, look at these images of little people, so expansive and wonder where they went

-hph

All photos by H.P. Hart/Good Eye Image