A LITTLE GIRL'S HEART

"I must be crazy, I'm out of my mind,"

I say this every week before meeting time.

Four will show up and eight will not call;

I really don't know why I do this at all.

We make plans for camp.

Two nights and three days.

It takes them an hour

to choose grape Kool-Aid!

Not worth it, I think.

Do they care, I ask?

It's just what I need,

one more thankless task.

Then one of them smiles

and rolls out the dough.

"My mother won't let me

bake cookies, you know."

We mop up the paint.

And I hear from one,

"Let's do it again

I had so much fun."

The first time away

in tents in the rain

One hugs me and says

"I'm so glad I came."

So when I feel low

and ask myself "Why?"

I try to picture

the look in that eye.

The grin on that face,

that one homemade card -

A leader's reward -

A little girl's heart.

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