They sat along the seaside wall

at a bar with a really great view.

They gazed into the declining red ball

and thought they were into something new,

but what they felt and what they saw

were a part of the inner life

of the children as they did draw

upon their primordial, ancient strife

only to see it again with less of a flaw —

the sun, water, basics no matter how small,

the goodwill, the conviviality of it all,

They concluded that life was really good

after all.