Child

(Dedication: For my grandson Axel Caleb)
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Dear curious child
Dare wonder wild


Grow well in truth
Let love set proof


Act with clear heart
Poise helps you start


Listen and learn
Grow and discern


Use your time well
Let your life tell


Go on your way
Grace guides each day


Dream bold and bright
Set your soul right


Dare to dream big
Enjoy life's figs


Joy dwells with ease
Hope tells of peace


Feel what you think
Forge a grand link


Be as the breeze 
From sneeze to squeeze


Live faith and hope
Seize love's wise scope


Child of these times
Sketch your own rhymes


Be as a child
Run free and wild


Each end a start
For your life's art




Leon Enriquez
14 January 2019
Singapore
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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