for Abigail

If I wrote it down,
perhaps I needed answers,
nothing more than words.

Only to find out;
Can't look forward while looking
back, and vice-versa.

It makes sense appear
in the way nursery rhymes
stick in adults' heads.

If I sat in thought,
I must have been by myself.
There's a trick to it.

Something came of it,
so I must have been with you.
That is the whole trick.

You were making plans
just as one sings lullabies
while holding my hands.

The definition.
It is just as reflexive
as it is backwards.