Transient it is, my smile and yours
It comes and goes, ebbs and flows
Like rain it showers, pitter patters
And akin to the sunshine’s gold it glows

Like the gentle breeze it caresses the face
It cradles you, in a tight embrace
Like my mother’s laugh and my baby’s coo
It keeps you warm on a cold winter’s day

Smile, o smile, I supplicate
Just one moment, is what it’ll take
What’s the haste, don’t slip away?
Aren’t we bound into a union by fate?

Stay with me for a little while
Can’t you please, oh curved, sweet smile?
Those chortles on jests so infantile
Forsake me, but bless my child