Baby’s first words

The two year old baby boy rolled by 

like a yellow, blue-eyed tumbleweed of trickery; 
mother looked down

cracked the whip with her eyes, 

made his bed with her voice and said: “MIND!” 

The whip missed 

the bed covers flew off,

he looked up with his two blue two
year old eyes, said: "YES!

I have one. And while I do love you, 

I'm ignoring you!” 

He rolled on and out of sight 

towards his talkative future.