A Brief Memory

A brief memory He sat alone under a wooden bridge over a small stream that (for him) looked deep; usually, a little girl sat the too but he had banned her and the straw doll she carried She treated him like a child holding his hand when they crossed the road. She had refused to marry him, asking where his dad was he told her his father lived far away in aficanmission land, she also asked him what his father was doing thinking about it, he said, a driver, thinking of the German a soldier who lived on the farm. Her mother had said there was no aficanmission land he was caught telling lies; that girl thought she was better than him because she was six years old while he was only four.