Memory in her Toes

Written for yuletide 2013, 

Music credit: Lana Del Rey - Walked With You Once Upon a dream

Her first step is in a meadow. She won't remember it. Who remembers their first step after all? Tremulous. Toddling. Toppling. Plop the wee distance of tiny chubby legs on soft green blades of grass that bend at the blow. She falls. All children fall.

She does not so much rise again, as grow.