Just Around The Corner

Just around the corner there is a waterfall...

and children who were happy to be there.

A mother who loved her kidlets...

grew up at this place just around the corner.

She watched her children climb and remembered her barefoot days, with parents smiling and nodding for her to climb higher.

She closed her eyes and took in the pictures that flooded her mind.
She shed a tear for grandparents who walked into the memory picture.
She remembered wanting to be daring.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

So much peace was found here in God's place.

The new generation tiptoed from stone to stone, careful not to slip.

Holding up dresses, they ventured into the current of the creek.

Oldest daughter found herself slipping and getting drenched.

Then the gurgling rapids beckoned a deeper enjoyment.

Two sisters followed, just as the mother's two sisters did many years before.

Nothing was better than permission to throw caution to the wind.

It was a day spent just around the corner but it was like a visit in life's time machine.

They said goodbye to the falls, but the memory of it will live in the minds of the children, until they sit back and take in their own offspring laughing and splashing all the way down the creek... at the place around the corner.