When Barack Hussein Obama was ten years old, he saw the world as a beautiful, golden haired, blue eyed ten year old girl, and thought she would always be his. Alas, that beautiful golden haired world has turned ugly and old, mostly by his doing. Still, he remembers the time he was ten and the blue eyed world was his.

The mind at times goes drifting back
I’m ten and she is too
Her hair the shade of sunlit gold
And eyes cornflower blue
I saw her after years had flown
We both now aged and old
Her hair still fair but flecked with gray
No longer sunlit gold
She disappeared into the crowd
And vanished from my view
I lingered but she’d gone for good
And once again I knew
That there would always be the time
I’m ten and she is too
Her hair the shade of sunlit gold
And eyes cornflower blue