Ben+G

Ben Goldman's Memoir: You and Me

//Ben Goldman's Short Story//

__Simplicity/Child's Play/Any other suggestions?__ A child once asked why the sky was blue and why the sun shone and why spiders have eight legs and wondered if God had made some mistake to make the world so simple.

I stroked the cheek of this young soul and felt its smooth skin and then felt my own -- old and wrinkled and with a heavy heart I said:

"The world is simple only to the fly."

Things I need help with: 1. The title 2. the sentence "-- old and wrinkled"
 * What should I do with the punctuation?
 * Does it work with the poem?

3. The ending (mainly last word) "fly" (I toyed around with "Blind" for a while but I thought it would be misinterpreted as the child is literally blind or that blind people don't see the world's complexities.)
 * Does it make sense? or Is the meaning clear?
 * Any other suggestions for what the word should be other than