I want to go puddle jumping again

I want to go puddle jumping again, this spring
Wallow through shallow water from melted snow
Muddy, cold upon my body
I want to be with my friends in that cold

I wish to laugh myself away, so far away
Swing round as all children do
Retrace lost steps of childhood to find me
Dancing with soft tiptoes, improvised ballet

I want to go puddle jumping in muddy rivers
As rain comes pouring down from up above
Let no consequence be known to me
Let not but cold and falling rain

I want to jump and slip and slide about
With cold nipping at all angles of me
Friends laughing beautiful shrieking laughter
In a place where tomorrow never matters

I need to go puddle jumping just one more time
Before I am to gray, so very old
That society would step upon my spirit
And say not to go puddle jumping, again

But I need it, as I would need the air
One last connection to lost innocence
Lost freedom of forgotten consequence
To only jump, and splash water so high

I want to go puddle jumping again
Just one more time before I die