The Button Box

Skipping stones
across the pond
of time.
Coleco
SNES
Nintendo
Internet
smartphone
tablets
and good old
D and D.

My Mum had a button box
full of magical tokens.
Rainy days,
                   or sick in bed,
those tokens were all mine.
Armies on the field,
arrayed bright and dauntless,
                  against the glittering foe.
And the Wish Market,
where the correct combination
of contrasting coloured counters
purchased your wildest
                  dreams.

Now, in a later time,
the buttons are recalled
complete
with memories of innocence
                 and youth.
But the security
                 and the surety
of those wondrous,
those different
                 times
remain,
safe          and          real,
in a button box
          on a rainy day.