Tip top, chop shop
patchwork jeans,
ripped at knees
and torn at seams.
Tee-shirt too big
half white, not right,
two lost buttons
fell off last night.
Tattered, battered
blacks and blues,
ice cold tosies,
holey shoes.
Windswept hair,
ragdoll lookalike,
runny runny nose
and a rattling trike,
Turns up hungry-
long day's play.
Messy and muddy
every day.
Nothing to do,
nothing to say,
but love them, love them
love them anyway.
