Serendipity

One serendipitous day

     sitting on the dock

     watching my kids leaving the world behind

For just a blip in time

      they remembered being careless and carefree

      back before they had their own offspring

      and fun was forever redefined

Time gives us so much

     even as it demands much in return

     we appreciate our gains but then one day

     we must pay with our decline

But then one day time gifts us with recall

and sitting on the dock

      watching my kids reenact what used to be

      I, too, got to remember being young

                            and eager

                                    and fit

                                        and fine