The baby smiled at me in line,

A happy grin with two teeth growing in 

On the bottom gum.

She said the only word she knows.

It sounded like, "Hi!"

She said it to everyone,

And if I tried to look away,

Again, she would say, so sweetly,

"Hi!"

I hope I'm that way to you

My baby arms, my baby coo

Want to charm you

Into looking this way

And smiling, and saying, "Hi!" to me.

For what else is there to see, to do,

But look at one another, 

And love one another through

Another day, on this planet, together?

-jenn