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Sarah's Game
Mommy, Mommy, let's pretend
That I am in the wheeling chair,
And while I'm wheeling,
you can stand
And walk and run or climb
a stair.
Mommy, see me turn the
wheels?
Her chubby arms propel
the air:
Sarah's testing how it
feels
To navigate a wheeling chair.
You may push me, Mommy, now,
Down the hall and to my room,
Just as sometimes I push
you –
Faster, faster . . . vrooom, vrooom!
When Daddy opens up the door
I'll wheel to him across the floor
Oh, won't he be surprised to see
That I am you and you are me!
When I grow up, perhaps I too
Can have a wheeling chair like you . . .
Mommy, aren't we having fun?
Indeed we are, my precious one.
Barbara Malley "Sarah's Game" was inspired by Barbara's disabled daughter's
description of a game her step-daughter had invented.
A book, Take My Ex-Husband, Please--But Not Too Far,
was published by Little Brown in 1991.
A number of tongue-in-cheek articles appeared
in boating and flying magazines in the 50s and 60s. She has also published
two activity books for children, based on the whimsical verses of her mother,
Ernestine Cobern Beyer. A third, Read Me a Rhyme, Please, was accepted by Humanics and is in the works.
Email: Barbara Malley
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