Ode to the Binkie

As many of you know, Rylynn recently FedEx'd her binkies (or her "binks") to the Binkie fairy.  Though things are going relatively well, certain members of our family are experiencing binkie fairy remorse.  I know of no better way to express remorse and longing than to write an English sonnet. (I suppose another way would be to write country music, but since our remorse/longing deals with neither motherhood nor a truck, I thought the sonnet a better medium)  Enjoy!

Ode to the Binkie

I miss you - how you calmed this troubled heart.

These years you've lulled my grief to minor hums;

Assuaged my pain and bid it to depart.

You've served me better than ten thousand thumbs.

Green, pink, round, flat, with stripes or poka dots;

It matters not how colorful you are,

But how you help me to think happy thoughts.

You muted screams and made them seem afar.

For solace, comfort, oh where shall I go?

When owies hurt, whatever shall I do?

Your soothing calm again I'll never know;

I lost it when to you I bid adieu.

Oh binks, Rylynn may wish for your return;

But I - all heart and mind - for you doth yearn!

- Rylynn's Daddy