Babies on Wheels

the toddler's mother
reads this and feels baby lust.
infancy flies past.

babies grow tall and
learn to walk on their own feet.
their cries change to words.

children grow taller.
bodies and voices change
become teenagers.

teenagers eager
to get a driver's license
wheels instead of feet.

monday, our first lad
turns sixteen, gets our old car.
race to adulthood.

i first met alex
a baby rummaging through trash
in computer lab.

fifteen years and change
later, wonder what happened
to that baby boy.