Tar!

Tar.
Black, gooey stuff.
When hot; sticks.
Used to repair roads.
Pavements and such like.

Being naughty.
Children growing up.
Dared sis to run across that black gold.
Outside gran’s house.
Barefoot.

Never one to turn down a dare, my sis.
Minutes later scrubbing off the black stuff.
Set like concrete; that black gold.
Gran never told.
I’d have been grounded.