Children gather 
invite the rain, they cuddle. 
Frolic in silt, scream-less. 
Joy is a tattler. 
Rubor of fun wanes 
in the dust of brown dwarf. 
Healing in mud poops 
castings and wrinkle slicks,  
A cure for earth.
Sameer Ahmed
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/unknitting-the-joy/