God has pity on kindergarten children, <br />He pities school children -- less. <br />But adults he pities not at all. <br /> <br />He abandons them, <br />And sometimes they have to crawl on all fours <br />In the scorching sand <br />To reach the dressing station, <br />Streaming with blood. <br /> <br />But perhaps <br />He will have pity on those who love truly <br />And take care of them <br />And shade them <br />Like a tree over the sleeper on the public bench. <br /> <br />Perhaps even we will spend on them <br />Our last pennies of kindness <br />Inherited from mother, <br /> <br />So that their own happiness will protect us <br />Now and on other days.<br /><br />Yehuda Amichai<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/god-has-pity-on-kindergarten-children/
