Dappled laughter
Dappled laughter on the ground looking for you all around.
If I could but bottle your laughter to have it forever after.
Watching your young hearts glow and changing as you grow.
Play my children while you can for soon the future will be at hand.
Time flows by so fast soon making the present the past.
Looking back you will say that is the way we always played.
When you watch your children run around and hear dappled laughter on the ground.
But for now you are still mine and in my hearts be children for all time.
So let your dappled laughter ring out clear why my little ones I hold you near.
Now as I look around searching for the dappled laughter on the ground.
I watch as you run and play cherishing this very day.
Watching you chase bugs and laughing with delight or seeing you watch the stars at night.
Making me feel young at heart hoping against hope we never part.
Knowing that time does not stand still though it is what I will.
Though knowing one day you won't be around I will still look for the dappled laughter on the ground.
