Give me your hand child <br />This world is filled with too much weeping <br />More than you can understand <br /> <br />Oh child <br />I watched you sleeping and I cried <br />Then you awoke and embraced the world <br />With joyful greetings <br />Smiling sweetly as you play <br />Bouncing and leaping <br /> <br />Oh child <br />In your innocence you hold tomorrow <br />Wrapped in tiny fingernails and toes <br />So much I need to tell you child <br />But I must wait, for you are young <br />And we both speak in a different tongue <br /> <br />Oh child <br />You see everything through pure eyes <br />And time is not kind <br />So sorry that now you must learn <br />This cruel world tells lies<br /><br />Cheryl Griffith<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/loss-of-innocence-9/
