We learn to
play with people
by playing with toys.
We love them to bits.
We’re always hugging them.
We can’t be without them,
until we get a shiny, new toy
and forget all about them.
And when years later
we meet them again
in a brown cardboard box
or in an empty supermarket
and all the memories
of what all
and how much
they meant to us
takes our breath away
as we realise
how much
we can forget
for how
little.