Joshua+Block

**Ode to the 5 am Diaper Change (draft)**
Darkness streams in. We are hardly awake And the thought of the day ahead is too much.

It is a feat to function. Yet here we are in tact.

There will be no more sleep, regardless. My body crumbles. The sky has begun to glow.

Through it all I cannot repress a smile. A face that shines. The world catches up.

**Around a Pond (draft)**
Muscles flex. I am speed.

Continue around and around.

I do not realize how good this feels.

Feet pressing into earth. Earth squishes back.

They must have been amused. Or envy?

Did they know what I felt And how much things would change?

Those moments are irretrievable. Gone before we know them.