For Sunday Drives

Listen closely:
blissful silence bitter
sweetened sanity
vital to respond
irresponsible for charming
unbecoming from the knee

Come now:
accompanying the child
Id implores begone
embrace; carry away
far gone foreign misery
beget a novel pain

Settle here:
for reckoning
altogether clear, behold:
proximity trades in lachrymose
tickle upon strawberry nose

Hold tight:
hold still
hold loosely bound
imprint warning in bold
โ€œFragile: may explode …โ€