Icons of Their Time

What if we had
known as children
that Lucy and Einstein
had given up children?

She who was
on every week,
he whose name
meant genius.

Would we have
laughed less at Lucy
or sat up more
in math class?

Or just seen
that sometimes
real people
smart funny okay

but real with
real circumstances
don't find a way
to stay with their children?

© Penny Callan Partridge
Amherst, Massachusetts
(This is from Penny's book, 'Pandora's Hope.')