~ BABBLE ~

~brooks, the babies & little old me~

Babble is a funny word.

Do you know what it means?
Is babble related to bubble?
Do Kings really marry Queens?
At times when I was small~
Beside an Oak tree so tall,
There ran a brook of water~
that always seemed to call~~~
Does that make sense at all?

Well, anyway the point is,
the brook would always 'babble'~
And it would bubble too!
In this case babble was the sound,
the water made as it went 'round,
over rocks and up and down!

The sounds went on and on
never making any sense.
If that brook could turn the babbling
into words, I guessed at what it would
say ...?

I'd ask "How far have you traveled?
And how do you feel today?
What do you think the 'babbling brook'would say?
Hmmmm... Now does a baby 'babble'?
I know they like 'bubble baths'!
The gooing, the giggling and rambling on~
Yeah! I would say a baby 'babbles'.
And like the brook they make no sense.

At least not til they are near one year!
So they babble while they're in bubbles~
Oh dear! What have we here?

Bubbles, & babbles again?
So much for the brook and babies,
I once heard someone say,
"Why does that old lady 'babble so?"
I pondered... brooks babble, babies babble~
Do little old ladies babble too?
Now I had some thinking to do~
Serious thinking, this I knew.

Where did bubble fit in?
I would wish I could understand the brooks babbles ....
And what it could say to me that day..?
I enjoy little babies when the babble
but what are they learning to say?

Then I stopped to wonder about myself,
growing old and grey,
Would I be babbling like the brook
And trying hard to say
"Please, if I don't seem to make sense,
It's cause I'm old and grey
And sometimes with the years so far behind, it's really hard to say ...
Just how far I have traveled and where ...
And how I feel today ... and what I've seen and learned along the way.

So please be patient with me for soon I will go away.
Just love me like a baby as I babble on today!"

DeLayne Victoria Perry