To visit grandfather
Mira Meir
To visit grandfather
The thing I love best
Is to travel and visit
Grandpa David and Grandma Esther
They have a sort of funny house
And mother says it is ancient
And in their house there is an old paraffin lamp
Hanging on the wall – perhaps for a hundred years
And chairs
That are very old
And mainly, mainly
The main thing is
The cupboard
The book cupboard
Grandpa David loves to read
Beautiful books from distant lands
Books with pictures and with photographs
Of pure snow or ancient forests
And he also has – especially for me
Photographs of animals
From the virgin forests
And my grandfather knows all of them
And he reads and shows me and explains
And therefore the thing that I love most of all
Is not the circus and not playing outside
And not marbles and not swimming in the sea
And not a cold ice lolly or a hot corn cob
But rather a visit to my grandfather David
Because of the stories
And because he has time for me
Always.