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# Children of Mages
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/children-of-mages/
- Published: 2023-07-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: "Hey honey, it's your turn to change the baby." Indignant, I respond: "Change into what? A dragon or an elf? A mermaid, maybe? Can't change her to a princess, she's all that."
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

"Hey honey, it's your turn to change the baby."  
Indignant, I respond: "Change into what?  
A dragon or an elf? A mermaid, maybe?  
Can't change her to a princess, she's all that."

I know, of course, the answer to my question.  
The diaper on the princess a bit full.  
Unless in an extraordinary session,  
we each must take a turn, that is the rule.

You'd think the rules of magic would permit it.  
A snap of fingers and the diaper's changed.  
To pamper it, to clean it or to feed it,  
a spell that seems so easily arranged...

Up in her crib, the baby starts to squeal  
reminding me that magic can be real.