Perspective

 Relentless days wrest center stage
from forebears hardly ripe
as calendars slough off each page
with calibrated swipe.
From Gerber pears to bubble-gum
seems but a month or less
and calculus replaces sums
like tic-tac-toe to chess.
So halt that whirling dervish time;
suspend it by sheer will
and patty-cake to nursery rhyme
while child is cuddly still.