POETRY SPEAKS! ARE YOU LISTENING?

Here is a poem written by me which illustrates the hope of every parent, to protect their child from the cruelty of this world. And this is the power of poetry, giving voice to the heart.

LOSS OF INNOCENCE

Give me your hand child

This world is filled with too much weeping

More than you can understand

Oh child

I watched you sleeping and I cried

Then you awoke and embraced the world

With joyful greetings

Smiling sweetly as you play

Bouncing and leaping

Oh child

In your innocence you hold tomorrow

Wrapped in tiny fingernails and toes

So much I need to tell you child

But I must wait for you are young

And we both speak in a different tongue

Oh child

You see everything through unspoiled eyes

And time is not kind

So sorry that now you must learn

 This cruel world tells lies

By Cheryl Griffith