Innocence

Silence

Concern

Empathetic,

Blue eyes

Glisten

Secretly You, listen

To everything

The world is your teacher

Movements graceful

Powerful

Unsure

But confident

Footsteps

Your eyes bound with light

Innocence

A smile flows from your face

Melts every doubt

Every hurt

Every sharp, hidden knife

That cuts…

The first to love

To trust

To give everything.

Truly Beautiful

A presence of free hearts beating

In unison

The world, broken?

With a heart like yours opening doors to peace in the swords?

With love like yours resonating through the halls of much too large spaces for far too few faces?

As you run and wrap your frail arms around my neck,

your feet lift ever so slightly

slowly

until only your toes remain

up

up

into the watercolor sky you fly

but as my grasp faces

I decide.

I’ll never let go

Why would I?

So you can grow?

To learn that children

Murder

 each day?

That rape is not held at bay

--not even close.

That parents fail

Abuse their spouses

Blame their daughters

And destroy what you so easily hold in your chest?

To find out

the world you love so dearly

throws its brightest stars to the wolves

its most beautiful minds to despair?

Where the mothers that care

Are forced to share

Their

Last chance at life worth living

Their last only hope they’re giving.

Where the beauty In your eyes will leave you

“maturity” consume you

Boys will break you

Trust will fail you

And when you scream in the night

Your pain will break every heart

Every heart

Every heart.

No

Remain in my arms

Where love is pure

unaltered

where your joy strikes down despair

and revives life

taunts strife

and maybe I have to let go

but please, please, please

don’t grow.