If I Could Go Back - Collaboration

As I'm looking through my window And I start to l look around All the snow has melted I see toys left on the ground A basket ball, a whiffle ball A glove and baseball bat A dirty lone blue mitten And a cotton ball wool hat Candy wrappers and soda caps And a witches old corn broom And underneath the swing set Was a busted red balloon Footsteps from the children Left imprinted in the dirt And in the leafless branchy bush Was a little boys lost shirt Those times when we were children Sometimes bad and sometimes good I'd go back there in a heartbeat If I thought that I just could A dirty lone blue mitten And a cotton ball wool hat A basket ball, a whiffle ball A glove and a baseball bat And underneath the swing set Was a busted red balloon Candy wrappers and soda caps And a witches old corn broom And in the leafless branchy bush Was a little boys lost shirt Footsteps from the children Left imprinted in the dirt The child in me hasn’t grown up Wants even now to play in snow Make footprints alongside children’s If in those times back I could go Those times when we were children Sometimes bad and sometimes good I'd go back there in a heartbeat If I thought that I just could August 17, 2018 Contest : Add a stanza to my poem Sponsored by : Charles Messina (Added stanza is in bold)