Saturday, 10 September 2016

I Wonder What You Will Be Someday

Entry into this world is, for most, painful…
To be squeezed and ejected, from water to air…
From warmth and protection, to cold and vulnerable…
From the gentle beat of a heart to the symphonies of existence...

To be aware of life, rather than wrapped in a thought…
To see more than the womb that was your world…
To see, through a blur, your new life unfold…
Your journey just beginning, but to what will it lead…

You grow and crawl, then learn to walk…
You learn to talk and fall over too…
You crate such memories for those who see…
You can understand a smile, but not a scowl…

But I oft wonder on the way to guide…
You need to know your boundaries, at least for a little while...
You need to know what’s hot or not, to keep your limbs intact…
You need to know a right from wrong, but who’s is the question…

I applaud those who teach with a premise of control present…
I condemn those who teach with control active...
I praise those who teach with realisation of ability…
I repulse those who teach a closed mind…

School approaches all to soon…
And you leave your second womb…
People jostle all about, some you know, some I doubt…
First day, first play, first to say “Hi”

You learn and learn the skills of life…
As life teaches you skills of it’s own…
You see the bad, You the good…
How will you choose what’s understood…

Family should teach you a way that’s safe…
But, sadly, this is not always the case…
Some are open and teach many views…
Some are closed and you cannot choose…

This time of growing should be free from care…
This time of learning should show what’s out there…
You should not be taught to fear…
You should never be taught to hate…

School is over all to soon…
Hormones kick in and you sleep till noon…
You find your partner, if lucky, your mate…
sometimes you know from the first date…

You expand your world through travel…
And learn new views on life…
You dance and laugh with someone..
And that someone is now your wife…

Jobs have come and gone…
One gels and life gently slows…
Time now for memories new…
But most of all, your time to teach...

Another life comes into this world…
You watch it being born…
Amazed in every single way
You look at your own baby and say…

“I wonder what you will be someday”

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