While governments come and go, <br />as politicians duke it out <br />and vulgarity and tawdriness <br />define the day, <br />a six-year-old boy <br />sprawls on the floor among his friends <br />with his coloring book, thinking <br />about the ice-cream party <br />tomorrow honoring <br />his perfect attendance <br />in first grade.<br /><br />Sonny Rainshine<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-heartbreaking-beauty-of-innocence/