Hopeful Hunni

Young Hunna-Bunna's turned thirteen - again!

-  but this time it is back-to-front, she says.

And she recalls the first time: that was when

we didn't live in town, so then she wears

her clothes that matched the farm, yet still friends came

from other places in the world to there,

and often they were older, with no shame,

their lives they'd gladly tell her of, and share.

And so, Fiona Hutchins celebrates

with us on that first Thirteen Years back then,

and hides a birthday thing for her and waits

for Hanni to discover (by hints) when

she gets so close that she must see it plain.

Well, she had made the teenage years, that time;

and eighteen years along, there’s been some pain,

but also greater joy, when there's a rhyme

in sharing life, and languages with folk.

The bright adventures beckon to her still.

“The best is yet to come!” - is not a joke,

but truth, that is true now, maybe it will

be always true, since God is growing us

to more reflect, some more of our Pa’pa,

the One we are the spitting images

(together) of, when we love well, we are!

We all will influence each other too.

There's times when we may not have acted well

our parts, that we were given, God by you!

But with you, God, hope grows, it's not dispelled!

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Dad - on Earth!