Innocence

To not know whether
you have acted out of
spite, pride, prejudice, or jealosy
but have only lived for then moment
or to not understand the harsh words
of your two screaming parents
but only to feel the anger
and know it's not right
that is the gift of the innocent
of the world; the children.
but alas it fills me with sorrow
to know that it is fading fast
and will not last
till the 'morrow.
we all lose our innocence
in one way or another
sometimes it is taken from us by force
and for others it is given up freely
in the hopes of something better
which only leads to something worse,
but knowing all this, cannot help me
preserve that spark of life,
of something greater then we are; forever
and when watching her sleep so soundly
unaware of the injustices we all face
I wonder how she will lose her innocence,
and join us.

ex animo,
Aaron