Hannah's World

Fair is the world where Hannah lives,
No woes that can't be kissed away.
Cushioned by arms of selfless love,
She dwells in beauty every day.

Her slightest wish is a command,
She wears her queenly crown with poise.
Innocent and quite unaware
There are less favored girls and boys.

Too soon, too soon to let her know
There is another world than this.
Here subjects vie to bring her joy,
Their only fee a smile or kiss.

Warnings and lessons must be taught,
A world of troubles to be met.
We look into her trusting eyes
And cannot bear to tell her yet.

The time will come she must be told
Of dangers lurking every where;
But for this while we hold her close,
Blessed in her perfect world to share.

By: Joyce 11/19/04


I wrote this after a news article of two small children (six weeks and 16 months) found starved to death in their cribs with their mother dead drunk in the room next door.There was a refrigerator filled with food but they had no access to it.)