Sonorous Laughter - Sonnet

Sonorous laughter and creeping tears- We cannot make up our mind, I think; Mixtures of memories, hopes and fears, While to age and time, we take a drink. My happiness and my sadness twine, For to err is quick and regret is long, Around things both earthly and divine- And how close weeping approaches song. The old are nearer to laughter and tears, They turn back into a child, it's said, As death with bony fingers comes near, They contemplate what's in store, for them. Our tears leave fragments of love at the end, And deaths birthing of new worlds, attends.