You Will Know What Children Know.

Stretching arms they reach so high,
Easily they touch the sky,
Whilst adults stay in logic caught
In rules and boundaries, which we sought,
Evading thus, thought’s quantum flow,
That lets us know what children know.

‘Now’ is the time they use to play
Tomorrow is another day.
Whilst we worry of the morrow,
And dwell of times long gone of sorrow.
Feelings we don’t care to show,
As we watch the children grow.

They shout, they laugh and express joy,
Each and every girl and boy,
They hold our hands in times of sadness,
To gently ease our world of madness.
A place where time is mighty slow,
No wonder, when we’re full of woe.

Our sins will catch us in remorse,
Self forgiveness is not there, of course.
The guilt, the pain, we try to hide,
But children see our better side.
Watch the children as they grow,
To know things that the children know.

And sometimes life’s so very hard,
We don our usual facade,
Fooling family, fooling friends.
Shows of bravado never end,
Our real selves hidden from this show,
And this alone, the children know.

But you know you’ll walk that extra mile,
When lit up by just one child’s smile
You’ll feel a heart with love aglow,
And then you’ll know what children know.