"Destined Minds"

THE WORLD I SEE.....

And I put aside childish things
and foolish thoughts and have
learnt that the hand that rocks
the cradle rules the world

so sing the lullaby of sweetness
while you can, and whisper sweet
imaginings in their ear and show
them a mothers tender touch

and give them the strength of
a father's love and let them rise
and build the world the one
we long and dream for

For hate is bred in childhood games
and vileness whispered from a mother's
lips and anger given from a father's
lack

And all children learn to hate and war
you seem them post in haste their hate
and mocking tones of vile they create
and spawn the world we long to be

shielded from and only now wait for enternities
mercy and grace that will let us live the way
we were first destined, and the way our
hearts long for..

Maree Long
(c) Maree Long 2008