Flash

She runs him a bath when she needs a minute.

He splashes in the running water and plays games with rubber toys.

But she forgets to take her minute, instead losing it to domesticity.

He comes out soft and pruned around the edges, clean and calm ready for another round of go, go, go.

All the while, she forgot to stop.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s