On Leaning Left

I watch the children walk the garden wall. They step too slow, and then must step too fast to keep from falling on the walk or grass. They lean to left to keep from falling right. They lean the other way to compensate for sway. I wonder if they know the game they play with eyes so fixed upon their nearest step. More than one I saw that day so studied his last move he missed the corner turn and so he fell and bruised a knee. I wondered why the tears for I was old enough to see one faulty step was cause enough to set the others free.