Give Me the Wild Children

Give Me the Wild Children

give me the wild children
with their bare feet
and sparkling eyes.

the restless,
churning climbers.

the wild ones using their outside voices,
singing all the way home.

give me the wonder-filled, glorious mess makers
dreaming of mountains and mud,
aching to run through a field of stars.

-Nicolette Sowder, Wilder Child