I found the path down

and a familiar sound

and the air chills as I near the old creek

My child within

Becomes a friend

I smile as I take our old seat

It's been two scores

And a dozen more

My ears aren't what they were back then

Yet crow caws

And water falls

Are today as they were ever since

I look up the stream

Remember and dream

The bucket we drug through the mud

It could be a frog

Or a polywog

Or a crawdad with pinchers that would

What's going down in frog town

The snails play truth or dare

The tadpoles are freaky

the salamanders sneaky

and the dragonflies make love in the air.

As I stand and dance

the turtles romance

The deer cut a rug together

The squirrels fuss

over hickory nuts

as they laugh and shake their tail feathers

My wife has past

but the memories last

we were here when she was ten years old

Our heart on the tree

is now ten feet

her name plus mine, forever sweet

What's going down in frog town

The snails play truth or dare

The tadpoles are freaky

the salamanders sneaky

and the dragonflies make love in the air.

The dragonflies make love in the air