BACK TO A TIME
I cannot be sure of this…because I was a baby at the time…
too new to my family…this world…this country……this land…
but I am sure…filled with wide-eyes innocence of childhood
there was so much back then I did not understand.
I could not yet feed myself, sit up, roll over, crawl, walk or talk…
I could not hold things for too long in my hand…
Yes…looking back there was so much about life and living
I didn’t not understand.
Like all babies I would need time to figure most things out…
how to walk and talk…what family means…and what love was all about.
It began when I first recognized my parents’ smiles…
and not too soon after
When I learned about contentment…happiness,
comfort, joy and laughter.
It wasn’t until years later…that I would come to understand…
there is also sadness, intolerance, war, hatred, anger and evil
spread out across the land.
There are times when facing this anger when I wish I could
go back in time to the time when love was all I understood.
Of course that is not possible…but I can hope and pray…
and do my part…to rid this evil and anger from the land
so when new babies enter the world…
love is all they’ll ever need to understand.
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