A DANCE OF JOY


BY

Laura Lee Christian


Our dancing child
on the coffee table
his favorite place to be
when his heart is glad
and his smile's way up 
and his toes prance so free
his mouth is a bubbling
stream of love
and his chest can't contain
all the joy
so he heaves and he puffs
a chuckle so loud
that we're proud he's our
own little boy
he runs to one end
where Daddy is waiting
and now to the other,
there's Mom
and his little heart says
I'll do it again
to express all this joy that has come