On our watch

We're supposed to watch 
our kids. And we do, of course 
we do, but at the same time 
we have to be aware 

a child feels safest 
when it isn't watched. 
Absorbed in play, in 
building some inner 
world, best it can 

with available external 
materials, completely 
unaware that we're watching 

but we are 
of course we are 
all creepy and shit