Delight In Innocence
Delight in innocence,
it lasts so brief a time.
The pressures all around,
from commerce, media,
and your peers,
crowd in,
and childhood is diminished,
shortened,
lost.
Your teenage years are
reached too soon,
with all their challenges
and pain.
The simple pleasures,
animals and toys,
excursions as a family,
and bedtime stories,
secrets with a friend,
or dressing-up
and dancing in the sun;
immerse yourself in all,
and when they pass
remember them
when you have children
of your own,
they’ll be the richer, too.
Delight in these few
precious years
ere they are gone.
© Mary Kille
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