The poem imagines a world without children and describes the activities children enjoy like riding bikes without hands, lying in the grass imagining shapes in clouds, and camping at night with friends. It conveys that a world without children would be a sad loss and very boring without the imagination and joy they bring.

1. A world without children!
Can you imagine that?
What would it be like?
It makes me yearn to ride my bike
To throw back my head and stretch out my legs
Hands off the handlebars and feet off the pegs
It makes me yearn for pillows of cotton candy
Sweet, sticky and oh so dandy
It makes me yearn to lie in the grass
And envision mystical animals as the clouds pass
To go camping at night
As friends roast marshmallows and tell stories to give each other
a fright
A world without children!
I can’t imagine that
It would be a great loss
A world so bland and so flat
-By Melissa Winfield